Gérard Boulanger

Gérard Boulanger (born October 1948) is a French lawyer and human rights activist. He is 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]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Elections régionales en Aquitaine : Front de gauche : Gérard Boulanger veut faire émerger un nouveau projet socialiste et républicain à gauche". Aqui!. 31 December 2009. 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.