Left fatherless by the Holocaust, Robert Badinter waged a lifelong fight for justice

Former justice minister Robert Badinter will be inducted into the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris – alongside the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau – on October 9. After his life was indelibly marked by the deportation of his father during the Nazi occupation of France, Badinter campaigned tirelessly against anti-Semitism and for a more humane justice system, with his name eventually becoming synonymous with the abolition of the death penalty in France.