Jean-Jacques de Felice
Jean-Jacques de Felice (May 15, 1928 - July 27, 2008, Paris), is a French lawyer, former vice-president of the Human Rights League of France from 1983 to 1996. Biography Jean-Jacques de Felice became known during the Algerian war, when he defended the National Liberation Front FLN militants. He pleaded for peasants of Larzac fighting against the extension of the military cam, for Kanak people and Tahitian separatists, for those homeless alongside Abbé Pierre, conscientious objectors, for foreigners who were in danger (he is a member of Gisti), Italian Red Brigade activists like Marina Petrella and Cesare Battisti. A criminal lawyer, he defended Lucien Léger, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966, for the murder of a child. The longest sentence any of his client got. At the age of 41 he told Jean-Jacques de Felice. "There is a period of detention beyond which justice is turned into revenge. With ideas close to historian Madeleine Reberioux, or the Hellenist Pierre Vidal-Naquet , Felice always spoke "in opposition to the established order”. The causes Jean-Jacques de Félice chose to defend created an apparent paradox. As a lawyer he defended activists who resorted to violence (Red Brigades, Red Army Faction, or the