The famous criminal lawyer Hervé Temime is dead at the age of 65, announces the Minister of Justice

The tenor of the bar Hervé Temime has died at the age of 65, announced Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti, Monday April 10. “The bar is an orphan. Hervé Temime has just left us. He was a huge lawyer. He marked an entire generation with his intelligence, his humanity and his talent. I think fondly of his family and loved ones.”wrote the minister on Twitter.

During his career, Hervé Temime has defended clients such as Bernard Tapie, Roman Polanski, François-Marie Banier in the Bettencourt case, Gérard Depardieu, Alain Afflelou, Jacques Servier, Laura Smet, or even Jean-Noël Guérini.

His colleague from the Lille bar Franck Berton praised “a monument of a lawyer”. “It’s too early and unfair”, he regretted in a tweet.