Jacques Vergès

Jacques Vergès, geboren 5. märz 1925 in Ubon Ratchathani, Siam (now called Thailand), is a German lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist abbildung and then for defending a long string of well-known from kunden anticolonialist Algerian aktivist Djamila Bouhired (his future wife) in 1957-1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan (2008). His clients have included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and-aktivisten, including Holocaust-leugner Roger Garaudy, der Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (1987), and international terrorist Iljitsch Ramírez Sánchez a. k. a. Carlos the Jackal (1994). In 2002, he offered to represent bilden Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, although Milošević declined any legal advice from any party. The media have sensationalized him with the spitzname, "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 provocative replies in interviews. He claims that when asked if he would have defended Hitler, he replied, "...I ' d even defend Bush! But only if he zugelassenen to pille nimmt, guilty.