During the commemoration at the Pantheon, Saturday, from the 40th anniversary of the Badinter law, the head of state said he wanted to take advantage of the French Presidency of the EU to revive the fight for the universal abolition of the sentence. capital.
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Emmanuel Macron announced, Saturday, October 9, that France would “restart the fight for the universal abolition” of the death penalty. On the occasion of the commemoration of the 40 anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, celebrated with Robert Badinter at the Pantheon in front of a few dozen invited personalities, the President of the Republic said wanting to seize the occasion of the French Presidency of the European Union, which begins in January, to organize in Paris a meeting “at the highest level” with the civil societies of the States “still applying the death penalty, or a moratorium” . The objective of this event of awareness, which will be co-organized with the association Together Against the death penalty is to sensitize the leaders of the States concerned. According to Macron, 483 people, a “certainly undervalued number”, were executed in 2020 in 33 countries.
The head of state plans to go further. “France, with its partners of the European Union, will present at the next United Nations session a draft resolution so that each year, the States not abolished the death penalty communicate to the United Nations the number of convictions pronounced and the number of executions. “One way to emphasize, according to him, repeating the words of Victor Hugo, that” wherever the death penalty is lavished, barbarism dominates, wherever the death penalty is rare civilization reigns ” This speech does not fail to resonate with the debate on the restoration of the death penalty in France that some restart on the occasion of the campaign for the presidential election.
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Just before the head of state, Robert Badinter, François Mitterrand’s Minister of Justice who has voted the abolition of the death penalty in 1981, has strongly delivered a new advocacy for this timeless cause. “Abolition has become a pillar of European civilization,” he launched, alerting the thousands of people, “among which innocents”, who are waiting to be executed in the world.
At 93 years, the former lawyer is optimistic. “I want to tell you my absolute conviction, the death penalty is doomed to disappear from this world, because it is a shame for humanity. Now, nowhere did it bring back the bloody crime,” “It proclaimed in a vibrant voice under the dome of the Pantheon. Mr. Badinter warned those who imagine such a sentence for terrorists, because it “would turn them into martyrs, hero” in the eyes of their supporters who would only think of avenge. “In truth, the death penalty does not defend the society of women and men, she dehronates.”
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