Almost everything has been said about Robert Badinter.
The son of Simon, deported and murdered in Sobibor, the child from public school, the passionate lawyer, his fight against the death penalty, the intimate of François Mitterrand, the Minister of Justice who accomplished the work of his life, the respected president of the Constitutional Council, the republican conscience that he became…
He is, and I do not want to speak in the past tense, the heir of the philosophers of the Enlightenment, of men of letters, of sentinels against obscurantism, of ardent partisans of reason.
He has sometimes been criticized for being “the moral left”.
Since when has morality as History has taught it been a defect?
Robert Badinter embodies neither a lazy and lesson-giving left, nor a disembodied humanism but a demand, an ethic, that of intransigence on our fundamental values.
And his exceptional career, above all, distances him from this or that partisan camp.
If he moved very quickly to the left...
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