Overview

• The induction takes place on Thursday, 9 October 2025, exactly 44 years after the law ending capital punishment.
• In keeping with his family's wishes, a cenotaph will honor him at the monument while his ashes remain at Bagneux cemetery.
• The Élysée-planned program features Schubert and a performance by Julien Clerc of a shortened version of “L’assassin assassiné.”
• Badinter led the 1981 abolition as justice minister and later served as president of the Constitutional Council and as a senator.
• His wider legacy includes prison and procedural reforms and securing the 1983 extradition of Klaus Barbie, and he died in 2024 at age 95.