Former Justice Minister Robert Badinter will be included in La Pantera on October 9, the 44th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, confirmed the Elysee Palace.
President Emmanuel Macron had announced that the former Minister of Justice would be given the honor of a place in the duration of Panthéon a national tribute that Death of Mesh on February 9, 2024.
The name of Balings “will have to be registered with those who have done so much for human progress and by France,” he said.
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Robert Badinter was “The Republic Made Man” and “A force that lives and struggles for the life of the hands of death,” Macron added.
He is given a place in the Panthéon is the highest posthumous honor in France, reserved for people who have made a son of an outstanding contribution to France or French life.
Born in a Jewish family who had emigrated from Besarabia, now Moldova, Badinter survived World War II in France occupied.
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When he was 14 years old, his father was among a group of Jews rounded by the Gestapo in the southeast city of Lyon and deported to the sobibor concentration camp in Modern Poland, where he died.
The young Badinter developed a sharp sense of justice that led him to a title in law in France followed by a mastery at Columbia University of New York, with an approach to ethical issues.
The soft voice lawyer, who said he could not bear a “murderous justice system”, widely vilified by pushing through Legislet that prohibits the death penalty at a time when most French still supported the practice.
“Guillining is nothing less than a living man and cut it into two,” argued a duration of a notorious case.
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He said later that “he had never felt so alone” in the fight to end capital punishment. But in the coming years they would be acclaimed by their integrity and statesman.
He had a reputation as a lawyer to defend, or successful notorious cases that his teammates refused to play. He saved six men from false execution in his legal career.
On his appointment as Minister of Justice in the government of President François Mitterrand in June 1981, Badinter made an end to the death penalty an immediate priority.
The last execution of France had been in 1977 with the death of Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of torturing and killing a young woman.
Four months after assuming the position, Badinter introduced the abolition through Parliament with a historical discourse that denounced the “stealthy executions at dawn” that were the “collective shame” of France.
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Two years later, it happened to Bolivia to extradite Klaus Barbie, a former head of the Nazis secret police, the Gestapo, to France.
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The historian and fighter of Jewish resistance Marc Bloch in turn will be honored in the Panthéon on June 16, 2026, 82 years after his execution for the Gestapo in 1944, AFP reports.
According to Le Figaro, families did not want the bodies of their beloved to “transfer”. But a cenotafio, a funeral monument, will erect in his honor.
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Macron, who pursues a long cycle of commemorations around the end of World War II, has already welcomed four great personalities to this Republican Temple: Simone Auction, Maurice Gineboix, Josephine Baker and Missak Manouchian.
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