Gérard Boulanger

Gérard Boulanger (October 1948 – 8 June 2018) was a French lawyer and human rights activist. He was close to the Left Front.[1]

In 1999, Boulanger was convicted of defamation against the noted French historian Henri Amouroux.[2]

A famous lawyer, notably leading charges against Maurice Papon,[3] Boulanger is also a human rights activist and union member. He wrote the biography of Papon, Maurice Papon: A French Bureaucrat in Collaboration.[4]

In 2010, he was selected to be the Left Front's candidate in Aquitaine for the 2010 regional elections.[1] His list also received the support of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), despite negotiations between the NPA and Left Front failing nationally.[5]

Boulanger died from cancer in June 2018.[6]

References
  1. "Elections régionales en Aquitaine : Front de gauche : Gérard Boulanger veut faire émerger un nouveau projet socialiste et républicain à gauche". Aqui!. 31 December 2009. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  2. "Diffamé au procès Papon, Henri Amouroux obtient réparation". Libération (in French). 15 June 1999. Retrieved 29 January 2019. Me Gérard Boulanger, avocat d'une des parties civiles lors du procès Papon (octobre 1997 avril 1998), a été condamné hier par le tribunal correctionnel de Paris à 40 000 F d'amende et un franc de dommages-intérêts pour diffamation envers l'historien Henri Amouroux
  3. Lloyd, Christopher (2003). Collaboration and Resistance in occupied France: representing treason and sacrifice. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4039-2031-7.
  4. "Court delays ex-minister's libel case over war crimes". The Independent. 15 June 1994. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  5. "Les régionales en Aquitaine". TF1. 25 February 2010. Archived from the original on 20 January 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  6. Géa, Jean-François (8 June 2018). "Décès de l'avocat bordelais Gérard Boulanger à l'origine de l'affaire Papon" (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2018.


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