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Death of Robert Badinter: a life marked by the Shoah and the fight against anti-Semitism
Death of Robert Badinter: a life marked by the Shoah and the fight against anti-Semitism – (France 2)
Robert Badinter died on the night of Thursday February 8 to Friday February 9. The son of Jewish parents, his father did not return from the concentration camps. An injury that will haunt him for a long time.
In 2015, Robert Badinter was at the Shoah memorial in Paris. The son of Jewish parents who emigrated to France, he saw, in recent years, the return of anti-Semitism in France with fear and anger. Robert Badinter was 14 years old when his father was arrested in front of him, in Lyon (Rhône), rue Sainte-Catherine. Deported, he will never return. In 1945, the young Robert Badinter came many times to the Lutécia hotel in Paris, a reception center for concentration camp survivors. He is looking for his father on the lists of survivors.
Close friend of François Mitterrand
“We cannot understand Robert Badinter, his struggles, the man he was, without knowing this injury. It all comes from there”, assures Me Alain Jakubowicz, lawyer for the civil parties in the Klaus Barbie trial. Minister of Justice of François Mitterrand, Robert Badinter was also his close friend, to the point of supporting him at all costs. In 1992, the president was whistled during the fifty years of the Vel d’Hiv roundup. Robert Badinter supports him, despite his gray areas.
