Georges Kiejman will not go to Cannes. The lawyer died on the morning of the Paris press screening. This cannot be invented. On the screen, he's young, he's alive. Arthur Harari lends him his sharp features, his eagle eyes and his hair that the tenor of the bar no longer had, even in 1975.
That year, he defended Pierre Goldman, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, in a second trial. Reason: four armed robberies, including one that caused the death of two pharmacists. The affair caused quite a stir.
While in prison, Goldman had written a book, Obscure Memories of a Polish Jew Born in France, through which he became the darling of the thinking left. It's curious, this penchant of intellectuals for thugs. We must remember. It was only petitions, support committees.
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