Death of Georges Kiejman, the lawyer who loved women

2023-05-09 11:58:00

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The tenor of the bar and former minister died on Tuesday May 9 at the age of 90. In “The man who wanted to be loved”, published in 2021, he recounted his loves, his successes and his cracks.

Par Nicolas Bastuck

A great criminal lawyer, lawyer Georges Kiejman died on Tuesday at the age of 90.
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Published on 11/18/2021 at 7:00 p.m.
– Modified 05/09/2023 at 11:58 am

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This article was originally published on November 18, 2021. We are republishing it on the occasion of the death of Georges Kiejman, Tuesday May 9, 2023.

Ln May 4, 1976, Pierre Goldman, a revolutionary robber supported by part of the intellectual left (Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Signoret, Maxime Le Forestier, etc.), was acquitted of the murder of two pharmacists, killed during a robbery in a pharmacy on boulevard Richard-Lenoir, in Paris. Re-tried for formal defect after a miraculous cassation, the dark guerrilla was found guilty of three other armed robberies, but saw his sentence reduced to twelve years of imprisonment – ​​life had been imposed on him during his previous trial. That day, his defender steals the show. A certain Georges Kiejman, the lawyer…