By Jake Hurfurt For The Daily Mail
Published: 01:39 GMT, 19 February 2019 | Updated: 02:28 GMT, 19 February 2019
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FRENCH villagers are complaining about a memorial to the heroes of the 1944 D-Day landings, saying it will get in the way of their sea views.
Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron will lay the foundation stone for the monument to British troops on the 75th anniversary of the June 6 landings.
The British Normandy Memorial will commemorate the 22,442 troops under British command who died in the summer of 1944 during the ferocious fighting of the Allied invasion of France.
French villagers in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, are complaining about the planned British Normandy Memorial, which commemorates 22,442 troops under British command who died in the summer of 1944 because they said it will block their sea view
The Daily Mail has backed the campaign, with hundreds of generous readers sending in money to help towards the £20million construction cost of a large statue of advancing soldiers and a long wall inscribed with the names of the dead.
But the memorial has met with objections from some of the residents of Ver-sur-Mer, who fear they will be swamped by coachloads of tourists.
They are also concerned over the environmental impact of a large car park in their village.
Maxi Krause, a retired professor who helped lead a 50-person march in opposition to
