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Aug 16, 20 jacques verges, who has died aged 88, was one of frances best known and most controversial lawyers. She has published extensively on postcolonial theory, creolization, psychoanalysis, slavery and the economy of predation and frantz fanon and aime cesaire. Just ask french attorney jacques verges, the central figure in director barbet schroeders terrors advocate and a fellow who has befriended and defended, with varying degrees of success, a lengthy list of terrorist bombers, serial killers, mass murderers, dictators, nazis, and other villains. From 1970 to 1978, verges disappeared from public view without explanation. Sixty years after the french nobel laureate albert camus died in a car crash at the age of 46, a new book is arguing that he was assassinated by kgb spies in retaliation for his antisoviet. Nazi war criminal, slobodan milosevic and liberation movements the fln and red army faction among barristers client list. Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused.
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