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Tomb of Former French Justice Minister Badinter Defaced with Graffiti Before Panthéon Ceremony
The vandalism targeted Robert Badinter's legacy as a human rights defender who helped abolish the death penalty and decriminalize homosexuality in France, officials said.
- Marie-Hélène Amiable reported Thursday the tomb of Robert Badinter was vandalized in a cemetery in Bagneux near Paris.
- Badinter's human-rights legacy helps explain the targeting, as he oversaw decriminalizing homosexuality and campaigned against the death penalty and antisemitism.
- Police found inscriptions denouncing his commitments against the death penalty and decriminalizing homosexuality, which Marie-Hélène Amiable said are unworthy of the former minister and senator.
- French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the act on X, calling Badinter a moral compass and saying, `Shame on those who sought to tarnish his memory. The Republic is always stronger than hatred.`
- The Panthéon induction places the act in a national context, as Badinter joined luminaries like Voltaire and Marie Curie and was shaped by his Jewish wartime family history.
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Tomb of Former French Justice Minister Badinter Defaced with Graffiti before Panthéon Ceremony
PARIS (AP) — The tomb of former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who was known for defending human rights and was inducted into the country’s Panthéon national monument Thursday, was vandalized in a cemetery close to Paris, officials said.
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Religion News ServiceTomb of former French Justice Minister Badinter defaced with graffiti before Panthéon ceremony
The tomb of former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter has been vandalized near Paris. Badinter led efforts to abolish France’s death penalty and decriminalize homosexuality. He died last year at 95. The mayor of Bagneux says on Thursday that the…
The burial of Robert Badinter, at the Paris cemetery in Bagneux, was tagged. The deterioration took place on Thursday, October 9, the day of the pantheonization of the former Minister of Justice. According to our information, the Internal Intelligence analyses and studies all the hypotheses, including that of foreign interference. - INFO TF1-LCI - Tomb of Robert Badinter desecrated: the DGSI does not exclude the hypothesis of foreign interferenc…
A few hours from the entrance of the former Minister of Justice to the Pantheon on Thursday, his grave was vandalized at the cemetery of Bagneux, near Paris.
A few hours before his pantheonization scheduled for Thursday, October 9, Robert Badinter's burial was desecrated, alerted Libération. President Emmanuel Macron condemned the act and assured that the former keeper of the Seals "will enter the Pantheon, remains eternal of conscience and justice".
Video. France pays tribute to Robert Badinter
President Emmanuel Macron presided over the event, which marked Badinter’s induction into the nation’s most revered memorial. Badinter, who died in February 2024 at the age of 95, is remembered as a moral and legal figure who helped reshape France’s justice system. Although not physically buried at the Panthéon, five symbolic objects representing his life’s work were placed inside the tomb, reflecting his lifelong dedication to justice and human…
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