Former justice minister Robert Badinter will probably be inducted into the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris – alongside the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau – on October 9. After his life was indelibly marked by the deportation of his father in the course of the Nazi occupation of France, Badinter campaigned tirelessly towards anti-Semitism and for a extra humane justice system, together with his identify ultimately changing into synonymous with the abolition of the demise penalty in France.
Left fatherless by the Holocaust, Robert Badinter waged a lifelong battle for justice
