National honor for Robert Badinter: ‘Your name will be written in the Pantheon’ says Macron

France pays its last respects to Robert Badinter today Wednesday. A lawyer and former Minister of Justice who initiated the abolition of the death penalty, who died on February 9. The national honor has been held at the Place Vendome in Paris, where the Ministry of Justice is located. ‘Your name must be written in the Pantheon,’ Emmanuel Macron said when praising the former Minister of Justice of France’, declared Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday during the last tributes to the former Minister of Justice. ‘You are leaving us at a time when your old enemies, forgetfulness and hatred, seem to be continuing again,’ added the French President from Place Vendôme, the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice where the former socialist minister supported the abolition of the death penalty.

He praised Robert Badinter as ‘a force that lives and snatches life from the hands of death’. this temple or the great dome of the republic which proclaims on its base ‘To great men, who did many great things in the country’. Robert Badinter was indeed ‘a great man, who did many great things’, the president admitted on Friday after the death announcement of the former minister (1981-1986). ‘These things take time,’ he stressed. ‘First is for the family, for freedom, to take the time they deem necessary to make a decision,’ Emmanuel Macron’s aides explained on Tuesday. the request to the Head of State. ‘It is legitimate’ because in the Pantheon there are ‘great people who brought good ideas,’ said on Wednesday on Franceinfo television the president of the Constitutional Council Laurent Fabius, a position held by Robert Badinter from 1986 to 1995.

Élysée, in consultation with the family, chose a symbolic place to pay their last respects to Robert Badinter: Place Vendome, where thousands of people have come since Saturday to pay their respects to him. A large portrait of Robert Badinter was placed in front of the ministry. It was then that the minister of François Mitterrand wrote the law abolishing the death penalty, in France which at that time supported capital punishment.