Europe 1 with AFP 11:57 a.m., February 14, 2024
Emmanuel Macron chairs a national tribute on Wednesday noon to Robert Badinter, a "wise" and a "republican conscience", on Place Vendôme, headquarters of the Ministry of Justice where the former socialist Minister of Justice brought the abolition of the death penalty. dead. Follow our live stream.
The Élysée, in consultation with the family, chose a symbolic and unique place to pay tribute to the memory of Robert Badinter during a ceremony open to the public: Place Vendôme, in front of the chancellery, where several thousand people have come since Saturday pay homage to him.
It was there that François Mitterrand's minister introduced the law of October 9, 1981 abolishing the death penalty, in a France then predominantly in favor of the supreme punishment. “I have the honor to request, in the name of the Government of the Republic, the abolition of the death penalty in France”: the first sentence of his speech from the podium of the Assembly has remained in History, “a huge moment in his life”.
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