{"id":610545,"date":"2025-12-04T00:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610545\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:11:28","slug":"france-sentences-student-for-defacing-tomb-of-guillotine-abolitionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610545\/","title":{"rendered":"France sentences student for defacing tomb of guillotine abolitionist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"French French police officers stand next to the grave of former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter, which had been vandalized a few hours before its moving to the Pantheon, at the Bagneux cemetery in Bagneux, near Paris, October 9, 2025. THOMAS SAMSON \/ AFP <\/p>\n

A French court on Wednesday, December 3, sentenced an engineering student from a prestigious post-grad school to a suspended term of one year in jail over desecrating the tomb of Robert Badinter, a former justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred just hours before Badinter, whose legacy also included decriminalizing homosexuality, was to symbolically enter the country’s Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures.<\/p>\n

“Eternal is their gratitude, the murderers, the pedophiles, the rapists,” read the blue graffiti on his tombstone, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n

President Emmanuel Macron had reacted immediately, writing on X: “Shame on those who wanted to sully his memory.”<\/p>\n

The defendant told a court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre that he was a “royalist” who had been upset by someone taking a sledgehammer to the tombstone of former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in January.<\/p>\n

Le Monde with AFP <\/p>\n

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