Faced with the large crowd, the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti announced on Sunday the extension of public access to the collection of condolences available in Paris to pay a final tribute to the former lawyer and Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, who died Friday at 95 years old.
Open from Friday at 7 p.m., shortly after the announcement of the death of Robert Badinter, the doors of the Chancellery, Place Vendôme in the 1st arrondissement, were to be open until Sunday evening.
Many of you are coming to Place Vendôme to pay homage to Robert Badinter.
The collection of condolences remains at your disposal until Sunday evening 7 p.m.
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— Ministry of Justice (@justice_gouv) February 10, 2024
While a long queue still stretched under the windows of the Ministry of Justice on Sunday, despite the rain, Éric Dupond-Moretti indicated on the BFMTV set that they would be there again from 6 p.m. on Monday as well as Tuesday.
“There are several thousand people who came from all over France to pay this last tribute to Robert Badinter,” greeted the minister.
A national tribute on Wednesday
A national tribute will be paid on Wednesday at Place Vendôme, where the Ministry of Justice is based, to the father of the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981.
As early as Friday, Emmanuel Macron had announced that such a tribute would take place, without specifying the date, and had indicated that he would speak on this occasion on a possible accession to the Pantheon of François' former Minister of Justice. Mitterrand.