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On Day of Panthéon Entry, Robert Badinter’s Tomb in Bagneux Is Defaced

Prosecutors opened a profanation case assigned to the Hauts-de-Seine territorial police.

Robert Badinter fera son entrée au Panthéon ce jeudi 9 octobre 2025, jour de l’anniversaire de l’abolition de la peine de mort. La cérémonie se déroulera en fin d’après-midi.
Former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter, author of the abolitionist law in France, delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, at the Pantheon in Paris, France, October 9, 2021. EPA-EFE/Ian Langsdon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
L’ancien ministre de la justice Robert Badinter et sa femme Élisabeth rendent hommage à Condorcet à l’occasion des 20 ans de l’abolition de la peine de mort., le 9 octobre 2001.
FILE - Former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter attends a ceremony at The Cour de Cassation, France's highest judicial court at the Paris courthouse, in Paris, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, pool, File)

Overview

  • The Bagneux municipality confirmed graffiti on Badinter’s grave denouncing his stances on abolishing the death penalty and decriminalizing homosexuality.
  • The Nanterre prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for profanation of a grave, an offense punishable by up to one year in prison and a €15,000 fine.
  • President Emmanuel Macron condemned the act on X, and figures from across the political spectrum, including Jean‑Luc Mélenchon and Jordan Bardella, denounced the desecration.
  • Police secured the cemetery, and crews cleaned the site, with access to the grave restored after the removal of the tags reported by police sources.
  • Badinter’s national tribute at the Panthéon proceeds this evening on the anniversary of the 1981 abolition, with a symbolic transfer of objects rather than remains and readings and music planned under the president’s lead.