[HIGHLIGHTS] ARCHIVES - When Robert Badinter looked back on his fight against the death penalty in “Hondelatte Raconte”

Ex-Minister of Justice and campaigner against the death penalty died on February 9 at the age of 95. In the first episode of a four-part series, he recalls his failure during the Roger Bontems trial.

“I have the feeling that it was a foregone conclusion,” he says of the execution of Bontem, who was sentenced to death in 1972. ‘I was young and I didn’t understand anything,’ he says, ‘but now I do’