Ceremony to Induct Robert Badinter at Pantheon - Paris

Former French President Francois Hollande, outgoing French Justice Minsiter Gerald Darmanin and Former French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, Jean-Marc Ayrault, Dominique de Villepin, French Ombudswoman (Defender of Rights) Claire Hedon, Lebanese-born French author and Perpetual Secretary of the Academie Francaise Amin Maalouf and outgoing French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu during ceremony to induct Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice, into the Pantheon in Paris, France on October 9 2025. Former French lawyer and minister of Justice and famous for his fight against the death penalty, which he supported abolishing in 1981, Robert Badinter, is laid to rest in The Pantheon mausoleum during a solemn ceremony presided over by the French President on October 9, 2025, the anniversary of the enactment of the law abolishing the death penalty, which he authored. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM