Manuel Valls: “What I owe to Robert Badinter’. The former Prime Minister pays vibrant tribute to the lawyer and Keeper of the Seals, architect of the abolition of the death penalty, who died at the age of 95.
“He is the heir of the philosophers of the Enlightenment, of men of letters, of sentinels against obscurantism, of ardent partisans of reason,” Valls says. He has sometimes been criticized for being “the moral left”