Disappearance
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Defender of “Charlie Hebdo”, Pierre Goldman, Nadine Trintignant or MLF activists, this outstanding litigator has been involved in some of the biggest court cases of recent decades. Minister in the 1990s, the lawyer with the fine mustache died on Tuesday May 9 at the age of 90.
Justice has just lost one of its most outstanding figures. Alternately defender of New Wave filmmakers, MLF activists and Italian autonomists, Minister Delegate for Justice, Communication and then Foreign Affairs under François Mitterrand, Georges Kiejman has pleaded in some of the most resounding cases of recent times. decades, from the acquittal of Pierre Goldman to the kidnapping of Baron Empain, from the murder of Malik Oussekine to the caricatures of Charlie Hebdo. The lawyer died on Tuesday at the age of 90.
Born in 1932 in Paris to Polish Jewish parents who had arrived in France a year earlier with their two daughters, Kiejman first experienced poverty and war. After the death of his father, deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, he grew up alone with his illiterate mother in a former brothel in Belleville. But his precocious oratorical talents push him a few years later on the benches of the faculty of law, where his eloquence hits the mark. Called to the bar in 1953, elected second secretary of the