A portrait of Robert Badinter adorns the facade of the Panthéon after his induction ceremony in Paris on 9 October 2025. Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in 1981, was ...

Former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in June 2001. Robert Badinter, the former lawyer and justice minister who persuaded France to ...

Signs and a portrait of former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter are displayed during a rehearsal of his induction ceremony into the Pantheon, on the anniversary of the promulgation of the law ...

(Miguel MEDINA/AFP/AFP) Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, ...

PARIS — 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 ...

The grave of Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, was vandalised on Thursday, just hours before his induction into the country's Pantheon mausoleum of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in June 2001. (© Damien ...

Thousands of people lined the Rue Soufflot to applaud as officers carried a symbolic coffin draped in the French flag into the national mausoleum. The casket contained Badinter’s lawyer’s robe, a copy ...

PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday inaugurated a cenotaph in memory of Robert Badinter at the Pantheon, a mausoleum in central Paris where some of France's most prominent national ...

Robert Badinter, the former lawyer and justice minister who persuaded France to give up the guillotine, will be laid to rest in the Panthéon on October 9, the anniversary of the 1981 abolition of the ...