Left pays unanimous tribute to the “tireless fighter for public freedoms”. Rare are the occasions for such unanimity in a deeply divided French left.
“I have never encountered a being of this nature. He was simply luminous,” said the boss of La France insoumise. The leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, recalled in a tweet the years he shared with him in the Senate. The other left-wing party leaders regretted “the architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France”