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Death of Robert Badinter: the former Minister of Justice died at the age of 95
Death of Robert Badinter: the former Minister of Justice died at the age of 95 – (franceinfo)
He liked to oppose reason and humanity to fear and passion. Robert Badinter died at the age of 95, on the night of Thursday February 8 to Friday February 9.
Robert Badinter was the face of human rights and freedoms. Abolishing the death penalty was the fight of his life. François Mitterrand’s former Minister of Justice died on the night of Thursday February 8 to Friday February 9, at the age of 95. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, honored the memory of a man of ideals, with historic achievements, who “never stopped pleading for the Enlightenment”. He leaves a major legacy, between the decriminalization of homosexuality and the fight against anti-Semitism.
“He was the very idea of justice” according to Olivier Faure
Robert Badinter was unanimously praised, well beyond the executive. “For all of us, he was a benchmark and a reference, not only in terms of justice. (…) He was a man who was the defender of the principles that allow us to live together”declared François Bayrou, the president of MoDem. “He was the very idea of justice, and he left a considerable mark in the history of humanists”, commented Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party. A man of many struggles, Robert Badinter takes with him a certain idea of politics.
