A controversial lawyer who defended Nazis, Holocaust deniers and Palestinian terrorists has died.
French barrister Jacques Vergès, widely known as the ‘Devil’s Advocate’, defended pro-Palestinian terrorist Carlos the Jackal and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.
Mr Vergès, an anti-colonialist and former member of the French Communist Party, was widely criticised by members of the Jewish community and anti-Fascist campaigners for his defence of Lyon Gestapo head Klaus Barbie and pro-Palestinian terrorist Carlos the Jackal. He was financed by Francois Genoud, a Swiss Nazi who was the executor of Joseph Goebbels's will.
He married his former client, Djamila Bouhired, who received the death sentence in 1957 for planting bombs in Algerian cafes.
