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Maximum penalties in a democratic state. Rereading Robert Badinter

Cnps, Milan 8 May 2025

Luis Arroyo Zapatero. President of the International Social Defense Society

Words and things, Michel Foucault's pleasure duet, They are daughters of their time. Men and their ideas too. This is the case with Robert Badinter. I remember his words well in the presentation of the academic project of the European Procurator in Luxembourg when referring to the first European institutions said they were created when "the ashes of the crematoriums were still warm". I have repeated the appointment a lot, Well International Society for Social Defense It was created at that same time.

But then I didn't know Badinter's personal and family history. Especially that of his father, whose image logged in at the place of confinement along with other French Jews in Lyon, In the Klaus Barbi Gestapo barracks, Way of Sobibor, one of the places like those "Cimetiers under the Moon”Georges Bernanos denounced regarding Franco's Spain. He also witnessed the most radical of the most serious penalties, In the summer of liberation he attended the execution of several collaborations convicted by a martial court. In the same way he learned rudely that the non -father of his father and so many others was for his murder in the Nazis extermination fields (Complete Read here)

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