Robert Badinter

We went to Paris with the express intention of interviewing Robert Badinter, famous for two things. Being the French Minister of Justice who introduced the measures (finally) to abolish the death penalty in France (not until the 1980s) and taking a leading role in facilitating the Ohrid Agreement, which brought to an end the threat of a civil war between Macedonia's ethnic majority Macedonians, and the Albanian minority. I hadn't realised until I looked up his wikipedia entry just now that Badinter's family was Jewish and his father was deported from Lyon during the second world war and perished in Sobibor. Now that is bound to affect your perceptions of life.