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.
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.