Robert Badinter will enter the Pantheon on October 9, 44 years after the abolition of the death penalty
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Politician who abolished death penalty in France to be inducted into Panthéon
Former justice minister Robert Badinter will be inducted into the Panthéon on October 9th - the 44th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France - the Elysée Palace has confirmed.
On 9 October, Robert Badinter, emblematic figure of the abolition of the death penalty in France, will make his entry into the Pantheon. But the family of the former Minister of Justice has laid two major conditions for this pantheonization.
Robert Badinter, who died in February 2024 at the age of 95, entered the Pantheon on 9 October. The former Minister of Justice had carried the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981.
Robert Badinter will enter the Pantheon at a tribute ceremony on 9 October, the anniversary of the enactment of the law abolishing the death penalty of which he is the author.
The Jewish historian and resistor Marc Bloch will also be pantheonized, a few months later, on 16 June 2026, eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo.
The former Minister of Justice will enter the Pantheon on the anniversary date of the enactment of the death penalty abolition law of which he is the author.
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