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Le 30 septembre 1981, la loi abolissant la peine de mort était définitivement adoptée par le Sénat. C’est à Doëlan, dans une petite maison appartenant aux écrivains Benoîte Groult et Paul Guimard,...
Le 17 septembre 1981, au Palais Bourbon, Robert Badinter plaide contre la peine de mort devant un hémicycle qui vota, le lendemain, l'abolition.
Forty years after giving a speech that lead to the end of the death penalty in France, former Justice minister Robert Badinter continues to fight for the abolition of capital punishment around the wo…
Advertisement A square in central Paris, on the banks of the Seine, was re-named last week “Place of the Jewish Martyrs,” marking the 44th anniversary of the round-up and deportation of nearly 15,000 Parisian Jews to Nazi death camps. Premier Jacques Chirac, who is also Mayor of Paris, unveiled a plaque in the presence of Theo Klein, president of the representative organization of French Jews (CRIF), Ady Steg, president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle and Israel’s Ambassador to France, Ovadia Soffer. The inscription on the plaque pledged that “Neither France nor Europe will ever...
The writer is an author. THE Bhuttos and tragedy share a grave. They are like the Kennedys and the Nehruvian Gandhis — privileged families who invoke (to borrow Homer’s thoughts) “the envy of the gods”; their mortal appeal lies in that “they are doomed”. That sense of genetic foreboding permeates the pages of Victoria Schofield’s touching memoir of her long friendship with the late Benazir Bhutto — The Fragrance of Tears (OUP Karachi, 2021). It began when they were both Freshers at Oxford University in October 1974 and ended 33 years later with the assassination of Benazir in ...