Jacques Vergès - Фильмы

Жак Вержес, борн 5 March 1925 in Убонратчатхани, Сиам (now called Thailand), is a French lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist рис. and then for defending a long string of well-known клиентов from anticolonialist Algerian активист Djamila Bouhired (his future wife) в 1957-1962 to формирования "красных Кхмеров" (head of state Кхиеу Samphan (2008). His клиентов have included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and активистов, в том числе Holocaust denier Роже Гароди, Nazi war criminal Клаус Барби (1987), and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a. k. a. Carlos the Jackal (1994). In 2002, he offered to represent сформировать Сербский Президент Слободан Милошевич, although Milošević declined any legal advice from any party. The media have sensationalized him with the псевдонимом, "the Devil's advocate", and he himself has contributed to his "notorious" public persona by such acts as titling his autobiography The Brilliant Bastard and giving провокационные replies in интервью. He claims that when asked if he would have defended Гитлер, he replied, "...I'd even defend Буш! But only if he agrees to plead guilty.