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laurent wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:02 am If there was one frenchman to remember
Robert Badinter has passed away.
He was the one to get rid of the death penalty
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/art ... ce=default
In french but what a great man.
We are in a very different world now sadly.Tichtheid wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:06 pmlaurent wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:02 am If there was one frenchman to remember
Robert Badinter has passed away.
He was the one to get rid of the death penalty
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/art ... ce=default
In french but what a great man.
I asked a French person on another rugby board what his thoughts were on Badinter and he said this (used with his permission)
Badinter was a brilliant man and the force behind the end of the death penalty here.One of the first, if not the first mesure taken by Mitterrand when elected in 1981.
Short anecdote: no one could call the result, it was so close (he ended up winning by less than 51%) and yet, a week before the election, although he knew the majority was overwvhelmingly in favor of the death penalty, Mitterand proclaimed he would immediately end it if elected. That’s the difference between a statesman and a politician.
Abolished in 1981.boere wors wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:33 am The last execution by the guillotine was only in 1979. I would have thought it was abandoned earlier.