He has a blue scarf tied around his neck, his gaze always intensely serene.
Nothing affects the weight of its 95 years.
It is a large portrait of Robert Badinter which is installed under the windows of the Ministry of Justice, Place Vendôme, where he officiated between 1981 and 1986. And where Emmanuel Macron wished to pay a solemn tribute this Wednesday, February 14 to this “ giant of the century.
Two stands face each other, soon ready to welcome between them his coffin covered with the tricolor flag.
The numerous luxury boutiques that surround the square silently observe the parade of the elite of politics.
Everyone came to bow.
Ballet of elected officials, deputies and senators, socialists who came to greet a “comrade”, current or former ministers.
“He was a very great Minister of Justice, a very great lawyer and a very great humanist,” praises François Bayrou, short-lived Minister of Justice, to the media.
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