Père de l'abolition de la peine de mort, Robert Badinter s'est éteint

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Père de l'abolition de la peine de mort en France en 1981, l'ancien ministre de la Justice et avocat Robert Badinter est décédé dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, à l'âge de 95 ans. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 After the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981,

00:03 former Minister of Justice and lawyer Robert Badinter

00:06 died on Thursday night at the age of 95.

00:11 The disappearance of Robert Badinter,

00:13 who also presided over the Constitutional Council,

00:16 announced at AFP by his collaborator Aude Napoli,

00:19 sparked an avalanche of tribute.

00:21 President Emmanuel Macron saluted on X

00:24 "a figure of the century, a republican conscience,

00:27 the French spirit".

00:29 "He will have dedicated every second of his life

00:31 to fighting for what was right,

00:33 to fighting for fundamental freedoms".

00:36 The abolition of the death penalty

00:37 will forever be his legacy for France,

00:40 wrote on X "the Prime Minister Gabriel Attal",

00:43 while the Minister of Justice Eric de Pomoretti,

00:46 former lawyer,

00:47 mentioned a "guard of the visionary jumps"

00:50 which leaves a void at the height of his inalienable heritage.

00:54 The leader of the French Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon

00:57 saluted on his part his "strength of conviction without the same",

01:00 remembering a "simply luminous being".

01:03 Minister of Justice of the Socialist President François Mitterrand,

01:07 1981 to 1986,

01:10 Robert Badinter carried out the law of October 9, 1981

01:13 which abolished the death penalty,

01:15 in a France then mostly in favor of this supreme punishment.

01:19 He then invested,

01:21 until his last breath of life,

01:23 for the universal abolition of the capital penalty.

01:26 Just between the just.

01:28 He was born in Paris on March 30, 1928

01:31 in a Jewish family emigrated from Bessarabia,

01:33 present-day Moldova.

01:35 His father, arrested in his eyes during the Second World War in Lyon,

01:39 died in deportation in the Sobibor concentration camp, in Poland.

01:44 After studies in law and law

01:46 and a diploma from the University of Columbia,

01:48 he became a lawyer at the Barreau de Paris

01:50 and led a career as a university teacher.

01:54 Co-founder with Jean-Denis Bredin of a prestigious lawyer's office,

01:58 he defends personalities,

02:00 big names in the press or the company

02:02 and occasionally pleads for the seated.

02:04 His fight against the death penalty

02:06 finds its origin this morning on November 28, 1972,

02:10 one of his clients, Roger Bontemps,

02:12 accomplice of a murderous hostage take,

02:14 has just been executed.

02:16 This raises the question of your vision of justice.

02:20 I swore to myself,

02:21 leaving the Court of Health that morning at dawn,

02:24 that all my life I would fight the death penalty,

02:26 he had declared to the AFP in 2021.

02:30 In 1977, he avoids capital punishment

02:33 to the murderer of children Patrick Henry,

02:35 sentenced to criminal detention for life.

02:38 After that, five other men escape thanks to him at the scaffold.

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