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Death of Robert Badinter: tributes from the world of justice
Death of Robert Badinter: tributes from the world of justice – (franceinfo)
Friday February 9, the day after the death of Robert Badinter, the world of justice multiplied tributes to the former Minister of Justice. In Bordeaux (Gironde), students from the magistrature school observed a minute of silence.
At the Palais des Congrès in Bordeaux (Gironde), Friday February 9 in the afternoon, the students of the magistrature school observed a long minute of silence during their swearing-in, in tribute to Robert Badinter, deceased the evening before. Present, the President of the Republic then paid tribute to the former Minister of Justice, who died during the night from Thursday 8 to Friday 9 February. Emmanuel Macron declared that France had lost “a great man“.
His eloquence and his “faith in man” praised
Robert Badinter will have had a lasting impact on several generations of lawyers. “All law students, and all the lawyers that we are, we also have this desire to have a little Badinter side, and to have this eloquence, this humanity and this faith in man, which we keep after all throughout the profession“, confides Maître Émilie Limoux, criminal lawyer. Professor of law, he also left lasting memories with his former students. A collection of condolences is open until Sunday at the Ministry of Justice.
