Gérard Boulanger (October 1948 – 8 June 2018) was a French lawyer and human rights activist. He was close to the
Left Front.
In 1999, Boulanger was convicted of defamation against the noted French historian
Henri Amouroux.
A famous lawyer, notably leading charges against
Maurice Papon, Boulanger is also a human rights activist and union member. He wrote the biography of Papon, ''Maurice Papon: A French Bureaucrat in Collaboration''.
In 2010, he was selected to be the
Left Front's candidate in
Aquitaine for the
2010 regional elections.
[ His list also received the support of the ]New Anticapitalist Party
The New Anticapitalist Party (french: Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste , abbreviated NPA) is a far-left political party in France founded in February 2009. The party launched with 9,200 members and was intended to unify the fractured movements of ...
(NPA), despite negotiations between the NPA and Left Front failing nationally.
Boulanger died from cancer in June 2018.
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1948 births
2018 deaths
21st-century French politicians
20th-century French lawyers
People from Manche
21st-century French lawyers
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