Robert Badinter could well have joined Pierre and Marie Curie, Victor Hugo or even Josephine Baker. Outlining this possibility, Emmanuel Macron said he supported the entry of the former justice minister into the Pantheon this Wednesday on the occasion of the tribute to the former socialist justice minister who led to the abolition of the Pantheon. Death penalty in France in 1981.
“Your name must be inscribed next to those who have done so much for human progress and for France and are waiting for you in the Pantheon,” the president said at the end of the awards ceremony at Place Vendôme, the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice.
“You are leaving us at a time when your old enemies, forgetfulness and hatred, seem to be attacking again,” added the President of the Republic, swearing “an oath to be true to your teaching.” “You will be able to hear how our voices drown out the voices of anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers, how your voice drowns out their voices (…) You will be able to listen to hearings, speeches, court decisions, a live chorus of the Rule of Law, which is so often called into question when you leave” , he said.
The head of state praised Robert Badinter as “the force that lives and snatches life from the hands of death”, tracing his path as an “anti-death penalty fighter” after he failed to save his client Roger Bontems in 1972: he who did not kill is guilty ” “The fight against death became the meaning of his existence (…) The life of Robert Badinter was now governed by a simple idea: in order not to lose faith in man, we must not kill people, even if they are the worst culprits,” he concluded.
The President recalled “his unforgettable call against the death penalty, which he said was abolished and executed” on September 17, 1981 from the rostrum of the National Assembly. “For five years he was the most hated minister in France, a target of hatred whose echoes still resonate in the Place Vendôme,” he stressed.
Source: Le Parisien
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