The public pays tribute to Robert Badinter: “There should be one like him per generation”. Many passing Parisians or provincials are coming this weekend to the Ministry of Justice, Place Vendôme, to leave their condolences.
“It’s a great man who disappears, a humanist,” observes Louis Nkouka. ‘My dad explained to me that he had abolished the death penalty,’ confides the little boy in a beige parka.