Robert Badinter, the man who marked the end of Yugoslavia, dies

French lawyer and politician Robert Badinter, former justice minister who was chairman of the arbitrage commission under the Peace Conference for Yugoslavia in 1991, French media reported.

Badenter Jurist, professor of justice in Sorbonne and chairman of the French Constitutional Council at the time of the breakup of Yugoslavia, was the head of the Badenter Commission, which in December 1991 issued a thought that RSFJ was in the process of dissolution, under which the European Economic Community recognised Croatia and Slovenia's independence within existing borders on January 15th 1992.

In his long legal and political career, he defended the removal of the death penalty in France, which was reached in 1981.

Intellectual and Jewish minister in the Socialist government whose father died in a German concentration camp, Badinter was the target of numerous attacks from French right, some of which were coloured with anti - Semitism.