URGENT! The great lawyer Maître Jacques Vergès has just left us at the age of 88

August 15, 2013 by farindiya Jacques Vergès died this August 15 at the age of 88. | MARK PETERS / ECCC / AFP Lawyer Jacques Vergès died this Thursday, August 15 at the age of 88. Former resistant, he notably defended the nazi leader Klaus Barbie at his trial in Lyon, in 1987. Born of a Réunionese father and a Vietnamese mother, he was a convinced anti-colonialist. His career as a lawyer had begun during the Sonacotra, illegal charges in the home for foreigners in an irregular situation.