Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand, a lawyer at heart, died this Friday, February 9 at the age of 95. He will forever remain the man behind the abolition of the death penalty in 1981.
A moving and terrible coincidence at the same time, in this period when anti-Semitism is resurfacing, the man who, as a Jewish child, lived clandestinely during the Occupation, died on the anniversary of the roundup during which his father, Simon, was arrested in Lyon.