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Robert Badinter's Pantheonization: Who Was Hamida Djandoubi, the Last Sentenced to Death Guillotined in France?

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On 10 September 1977, Hamida Djandoubi died executed in the Baumettes prison in Marseilles. He was sentenced to death for "killing after torture and barbarism, rape and premeditated violence". He was the last person sentenced to death executed in the national territory.

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At the time of Robert Badinter's pantheonization, Marina Hands read an excerpt from his 2011 book "Les Épines et les Roses" (Replay TF1).

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On 10 September 1977, Hamida Djandoubi died executed in the Baumettes prison in Marseilles. He was sentenced to death for "killing after torture and barbarism, rape and premeditated violence". He was the last person sentenced to death executed in the national territory.

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On March 10, 1977, the guillotine fell on this 28-year-old Tunisian, convicted of rape and murder. Robert Badinter, craftsman of the abolition of the death penalty, entered the Pantheon on Thursday, the JDD goes back to the path of the last death sentence of the Fifth Republic.

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BFM TV broke the news in France on Thursday, October 9, 2025.
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