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]

A famous lawyer, notably leading charges against Maurice Papon,[2] Boulanger is also a human rights activist and union member. He wrote the biography of Papon, Maurice Papon: A French Bureaucrat in Collaboration.[3]

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.[4]

Boulanger died from cancer in June 2018.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "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. ↑ Lloyd, Christopher (2003). Collaboration and Resistance in occupied France: representing treason and sacrifice. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4039-2031-7.
  3. ↑ "Court delays ex-minister's libel case over war crimes". The Independent. 15 June 1994. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  4. ↑ "Les régionales en Aquitaine". TF1. 25 February 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  5. ↑ 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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