Jacques Verges
Jacques Verges
Jacques Vergèswas a lawyer who earned fame continually from the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients, from an anticolonialist Algerian militant, Djamila Bouhiredin 1957–1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan in 2008. His clients included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal. In 2002,...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth5 March 1925
CountryFrance
From this point of view, as a French - I have no complex about this, of inferiority. And I try to have no complex of superiority.
Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.
I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.
I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.