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‘The nation owes him a lot,’ said president Emmanuel Macron

Robert Badinter, who died on February 9 aged 95, helped to abolish the death penalty in France four decades ago. The bloody aftermath of a prison siege in 1971 was his tipping point

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Robert Badinter, who has died aged 95, was the Minister of Justice who in 1981 secured the abolition of France’s death penalty – having campaigned for the reform since witnessing a criminal he had defended being guillotined nine years before.

French President Emmanuel Macron was on Wednesday leading a national tribute to former justice minister Robert Badinter, who played a pivotal role in abolishing the death penalty. Badinter's family say the far-right National Rally (RN) and the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) parties are persona non grata at the tribute – being held in Paris's Place Vendôme, home of the Justice Ministry for 300 years.While Marine Le Pen's RN agreed not to attend, the LFI said it was sending two of its MPs."A nation