Isabelle Coutant-Peyre died Friday at the age of 70, we learned from a of his loved ones. In 45 years of career, this unclassifiable criminal lawyer was notably the lawyer of the serial killer Charles Sobhraj alias “the Serpent” She also defended the polemicist Dieudonné M'Bala M’Bala, the writer Gabriel Matzneff and even Ali Riza Polat.
In her eyes, Carlos, whom she compared to Nelson Mandela, was “not a criminal” but “a freedom fighter, a revolutionary,” writes Agnes Poirier. She had an early life, bourgeois and orderly. Married at 21 to Michel Peyre, who was deputy mayor of Granville, she had three children with him. In 1979, she took the oath and specialized in business law. She met the sulphurous lawyer Jacques Vergès (died in 2013), who shared the “same insolence” with her, but whom she said she did not consider as her “mentor”