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Justice is not revenge

Publication date 28/06/1977 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Robert Badinter revisits the convictions of abolitionists for society to progress. The lawyer states: "the whole effort of justice is to rise above private vengeance".

Microsidewalk on the death penalty

Publication date 07/04/1970 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Microsidewalk in the streets of Paris inviting passers-by to speak for or against the death penalty. Opinions are, to say the least, divided.

Execution of Hamida Djandoubi in Marseille

Publication date 10/09/1977 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Sentenced to death in February 1977 for murder and rape, Hamida Djandoubi was guillotined this morning at the Baumettes prison in Marseille. Comment on aerial images above the Baumettes prison and inside the prison.

Speech by R. Badinter on the abolition of the death penalty:"The deterrent value"

Publication date 17/09/1981 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Robert BADINTER, Minister of Justice, opposes the argument that the death penalty would have a deterrent value for blood criminals. He cites the example of the criminal Patrick Henry who was in the crowd demanding the head of Claude Buffet and Roger Bontemps during their trial in Troyes in 1972.

François Mitterrand "I am against the death penalty"

Publication date 16/03/1981 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

François MITTERRAND, a candidate for the presidency of the Republic, is against the death penalty; he knows that a majority of French is not of this opinion but he is seeking their suffrage by wishing to show what he thinks. He will pardon those condemned to death but he believes that presidential grace is an excessive power. (Applause in the room).

Testimony of Roger Bontems' parents, sentenced to death.

Publication date 13/11/1975 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

The parents of Roger Bontems, sentenced to death, are against the death penalty.

Speech by R. Badinter on the abolition of the death penalty: Ranucci, Carrein, Djandoubi

Publication date 17/09/1981 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Robert BADINTER evokes the three condemned to death of the seven-year-old Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: Christian Ranucci, whose guilt is doubted, Jérôme Carrein, mentally retarded, Hamida Djandoubi, one-legged unbalanced. According to Badinter, the safety of the French would not have been threatened if these men had simply remained in prison.

Speech by R. Badinter on the abolition of the death penalty: tribute to Jean Jaurès

Publication date 17/09/1981 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

In evoking the chronology of abolitionism in France, from the revolution to the present day, Robert BADINTER pays a vibrant tribute to Jean Jaurès. He recalled how the latter had defended in the House the abolition of the death penalty against Maurice Barrès. After some turmoil in the opposition benches, he quotes one of the key sentences of Jaurès' speech "The death penalty is contrary to what humanity has thought for 2,000 years from above and dreamed of being more noble, it is contrary to both the spirit of Christianity and the spirit of the revolution".

Robert Badinter on the outcome of the trial of P. Henry

Publication date 20/01/1977 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Interview with Master Robert BADINTER, lawyer of Patrick Henry, after the sentence of the latter to life imprisonment and while he risked the death penalty after the assassination of little Philippe Bertrand. According to Robert BADINTER: "This is a great moment in judicial history" but this decision does not in fact abolish the existence of the death penalty. According to him, while public opinion is still in favour of the death penalty, jurors are in a much more tenuous position. Life is the sacred value by definition".

Voting to abolish the death penalty: election results announced

Publication date 18/09/1981 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Philippe SEGUIN, Acting President of the National Assembly, announces the results of the vote on the bill to abolish the death penalty in France.

Yves Mourousi on Patrick Henry

Publication date 18/02/1976 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Yves MOUROUSI comments on the Patrick Henry case. He does not hesitate to call this man "bastard" who casually claimed his innocence during an interview while he had just murdered little Philippe Bertrand.

Robert Badinter on the Bontems case and his fight against the death penalty

Publication date 04/10/1985 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Robert BADINTER, Minister of Justice, recalls the BONTEMS case as his worst memory as a lawyer but also as the founder of his active fight against the death penalty.

Speech by R. Badinter on the abolition of the death penalty: the prerogative of dictatorships

Publication date 17/09/1981 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Robert BADINTER recalls that "in countries of freedom, the common law is abolition, in countries of freedom, the death penalty is the exception. For everywhere, in the world, and without exception, where dictatorship and disregard for human rights triumph, everywhere, you will find the death penalty written down in bloody letters."

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: death penalty or life imprisonment

Publication date 01/02/1977 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Asked about the death penalty, President Valéry GISCARD of ESTAING, who describes the death penalty as "barbaric", recalls that what is meant by life imprisonment is often switched to parole after about 15 years. He thus proposes that those condemned to death who would eventually be imprisoned should actually be locked up for life.

Master Lombard on Ranucci execution

Publication date 15/09/1981 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Master Paul LOMBARD, lawyer of Christian RANUCCI (sentenced to death and executed in 1976) tells, with emotion, the execution of his client: "I remember the horrible noises that suddenly come to bleed the silence [...] the most atrocious, the sound of the bucket of water being thrown on the machine to wash the blood of a young man"

Robert Badinter "society must refuse the law of the talion"

Publication date 18/02/1976 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Interview of Master BADINTER about Patrick Henry’s crime and his fight against the death penalty: "the death penalty must not be institutionalized, society must refuse the law of the talion".

Michel Poniatowski "Si j'étais juré, je me prononcerais pour la peine de mort."

Publication date 18/02/1976 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Déclaration de Michel Poniatowski, ministre de l'Intérieur, à propos du crime de Patrick HENRY à Troyes : "Si j'étais juré, je me prononcerais pour la peine de mort."

Demonstration against the death penalty

Publication date 06/11/1976 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Report. 36 organizations gathered in Paris to protest against the death penalty. Comment on the images of the procession preceded by a large symbolic guillotine.

Verdict trial Buffet-Bontems

Publication date 30/06/1972 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

The crowd at the assizes after the announcement of the verdict of the trial BUFFET-BONTEMS. Applause from an individual listening to the verdict and violent response from the president. Images of the crowd and the cellular van, booed by the crowd, exiting the palace with a few sound cuts. No comment.

Roger Gicquel: France is afraid

Publication date 18/02/1976 From €100.00

Abolition of the death penalty

Roger GICQUEL, on the set, starts the 20-hour TF1 diary with the sentence: "France is afraid!" to announce the murder of the boy kidnapped by Patrick Henry.

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