Former justice minister Robert Badinter can 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 throughout the Nazi occupation of France, Badinter campaigned tirelessly towards anti-Semitism and for a extra humane justice system, along with his identify finally changing into synonymous with the abolition of the loss of life penalty in France.
Left fatherless by the Holocaust, Robert Badinter waged a lifelong struggle for justice
By Emily Turner
