(보도) 영국 BBC 2013-8-15
크메르루주 키우 삼판의 변호인, '악마의 변호사' 자크 베르제스 사망
French lawyer 'Devil's advocate' Jacques Verges dies

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(자료사진: AFP/ECCC, Mark Peters) 키우 삼판 피고인의 변호인인 자크 베르제스 변호사. |
- '악마의 변호사'로 유명한 자크 베르제스 변호사가 향년 88세로 사망.
- 프랑스 변호사 협회장에 따르면, 그는 몇달 전에 쓰려졌고, 이후 야위워가면서 거동이 불편해짐.
- 상세한 내용은 맨 아래 관련 게시물들을 참조할 것.
Controversial French lawyer Jacques Verges, whose clients included Carlos the Jackal and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, has died aged 88.
Mr Verges became known as "the Devil's advocate" for taking on controversial and high-profile cases.
He is said to have been a friend of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader behind the Cambodian genocide.
An anti-colonialist and communist, he defended Algerians accused of terrorism against France in the 1950s.
Christian Charriere-Bournazel, head of France's main bar association, told the Agence France-Presse news agency that he had been informed of Mr Verges' death by the lawyer's associates. "He had a fall a few months ago, he had since lost a lot of weight and walked very slowly. We knew the end was near but we didn't know it would come so soon," he said.
Mr Verges was born in Thailand to a French diplomat father and a Vietnamese mother, and grew up on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, where he is said to have acquired his fiercely anti-colonialist views.
In World War II he fought with General Charles de Gaulle's Free French resistance and later joined the French Communist Party.
During the Algerian war of independence, he defended Algerians accused of terrorism against France.
One of his clients was his future wife Djamila Bouhired, who had been sentenced to death in 1957 for planting bombs in cafes in Algiers.
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첫댓글 크메르루즈 정권과 그 지도자들을 그나마 옹호해줄 수 있었던 지구상 유일했던 변호사가 가버렸네요..
반식민주의자이자 악마의 변호사란 욕을 먹긴 했지만, 평생 지조와 소신을 가지고 산 모습은 나름 높이 평가할 만 한 것 같습니다.
그나저나, 가뜩이나 재정이 어려운 지금 상황에서 변호사도 없이 전범재판을 이어가기도 힘들텐데, 새 변호사 선정하느라 또 시간
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