He will forever remain the man behind the abolition of the death penalty in 1981. Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand, a lawyer at heart who led his battles until his last breath - notably the he illusory cessation of capital punishment all over the world – died this Friday, February 9 at the age of 95.
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A moving and terrible coincidence at the same time, in this period when anti-Semitism is resurfacing, the man who, as a Jewish child, lived clandestinely during the Occupation, died on the anniversary of the roundup during which his father, Simon, was arrested in Lyon, February 9, 1943, before disappearing into the Nazi camps.
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