Overview
- Badinter was inducted on October 9 in a solemn state ceremony and placed in the Panthéon’s “revolutionaries of 1789” vault alongside Condorcet, Abbé Grégoire and Gaspard Monge.
- A cenotaph now represents him with his lawyer’s robe, a copy of his 1981 abolition speech and selected books, rather than a transfer of his remains.
- President Emmanuel Macron pledged to push for the universal abolition of the death penalty and to confront antisemitism while defending the rule of law.
- The program featured readings of Badinter’s pleas, a Victor Hugo text read by actor Guillaume Gallienne and a performance by Julien Clerc, with texts chosen by Élisabeth Badinter.
- Hours before the ceremony, his grave in Bagneux was defaced with hostile inscriptions, rapidly cleaned with access restored, and a police investigation was opened by the Hauts-de-Seine territorial unit.