[HIGHLIGHTS] Decriminalization of homosexuality, improvement of prison conditions... these other fights led by Robert Badinter

Former Minister of Justice Robert Badinter died on February 8 to 9. Le Figaro looks back on some of the measures taken by the former minister.

Badinter helped end the criminalization of homosexuality and improve prison conditions. He also launched numerous projects, such as the overhaul of the State Security Court and the “FAFA’s” Abolition of the death penalty in 1986, voted on shortly after his departure. The law of January 3, 1985 also establishes hospitals intended to accommodate inmates of public hospitalization establishments.