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Robert Badinter, who spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty, campaigned against antisemitism and Holocaust denial, and led a European body dealing with the legal fallout of Yugoslavia's breakup, has died. French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Badinter, a revered human rights defender and former justice minister, as a ‘’figure of the century’’ who ‘’never ceased to advocate for the ideas of the Enlightenment.’’ The French Justice Ministry on Friday confirmed Badinter’s death, without providing details...

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“Figure of the century”, “a righteous man among the righteous”: shower of tributes after the death of Robert Badinter. “He embodied the very idea of ​​justice’: Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti. � “Robert Badinter was the defender of just causes, humanism incarnate, the voice of wisdom in a disrupted world,” underlined Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Former socialist president François Hollande paid tribute to Badinter's "message" "not of indulgence, but of human dignity" with the abolition of the death penalty.

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The former French justice minister campaigned against antisemitism and Holocaust denial.