“Figure of the century”, “a righteous man among the righteous”: shower of tributes after the death of Robert Badinter. “He embodied the very idea of justice’: Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti. � “Robert Badinter was the defender of just causes, humanism incarnate, the voice of wisdom in a disrupted world,” underlined Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Former socialist president François Hollande paid tribute to Badinter's "message" "not of indulgence, but of human dignity" with the abolition of the death penalty.