Robert Badinter at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Paris, January 27, 2016. – Credit:Balkis Press/Abaca
Very close to the Badinter couple, met in 2007 during the trial of Charlie Hebdolawyer Richard Malka tells Point the relationship he had established with the former Minister of Justice, lawyer and president of the Constitutional Council, died on the night of February 8 to 9 at the age of 95.
Point : Robert Badinter is dead, you were very close to him. How do you react to his disappearance?
Richard Malka: I feel a lot of sadness and nostalgia. It is after Georges Kiejman, another tutelary figure who is leaving and this disappearance leaves an immense void in me. Robert Badinter was a model, a reference, someone who inspired me a lot and often advised me.
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We were both lawyers, so he advised me on how to approach certain difficult cases, possible angles of defense. I visited the pyramids alongside him, I learned with him. It was such a privilege to meet him…
What figure does he embody in your eyes?
Of course, there is abolition, legal battles, political life but I see him first and foremost as a man of history. History weighed on him constantly and he was acutely aware of it. When we started dating, the first thing he did was give me a list of books on the Holocaust. He lived this story, which had taken away his father, dead in Sobibor, his uncle, also deported, and […] Read more
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