Emmanuel Macron reacted on the social network
A “desecration”, in the words of the Head of State, that occurs on the same day that Robert Badinter enters the Pantheon in Paris.
“Robert Badinter’s tomb has been desecrated. Shame on those who wanted to tarnish his memory. This afternoon he will enter the Pantheon, the eternal abode of conscience and justice. The Republic is always stronger than hate,” writes Emmanuel Macron in his account X.
Damages in connection with Robert Badinter’s “commitments”
Marie-Hélène Amiable, communist mayor of the town of Bagneux where Robert Badinter rests, denounced a “cowardly act” and “hateful inscriptions” in a press release also published in X.
Earlier, Marie-Hélène Amiable had denounced the presence of “inscriptions found by the police indicting the commitments against the death penalty and for the decriminalization of homosexuality” of Robert Badinter.
Battles led with conviction by the former Minister of Justice, who defended in particular the abolition of capital punishment that came into force in 1981, as well as the decriminalization of homosexuality starting in 1982.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, condemned an “act of cowardice and indignity,” according to AFP. “This morning the city of Paris sent a report to the prosecutor’s office so that the perpetrators can be arrested and sentenced,” he told reporters.
“We can desecrate a grave, not a conscience,” he reacted about “Robert Badinter is the conscience and the face of the Republic and that: no one will take him away from us.”
An investigation has been opened on the charge of desecration of a grave, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said in a press release. Acts punishable by one year in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros. The investigation was entrusted to the territorial security of Hauts-de-Seine.
Source: BFM TV
