France: national tribute to Robert Badinter against a backdrop of political controversy. French President Emmanuel Macron chairs a national tribute at 12 p.m.
on Wednesday. The head of state promised to speak on a possible entry of the lawyer, who died in the night from Thursday to Friday at the age of 95. Will the former minister of François Miterrand, gravedigger of the scaffold in France, rest in the crypt of the Pantheon, this republican temple which proclaims on its pediment “To great men, the grateful homeland”