National tribute to Robert Badinter: Emmanuel Macron expected to enter the Pantheon. Badinter, born into a Jewish family that emigrated from Bessarabia (now Moldova), witnessed his father's arrest in Lyon during the Second World War.
He died during deportation to Poland. His fight against the death penalty began on the morning of November 28, 1972: one of his clients, Roger Bontems, an accomplice in a deadly hostagetaking, had just been guillotined.