Jacques Vergès  

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Jacques Vergès (born March 5, 1925 in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand) is a controversial French lawyer and famous anti-colonialist communist figure. He has been noted for defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie in 1987 and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy in 1996.

Because of his tendency to represent some of the most infamous defendants, Vergès is sometimes referred to as "The Devil's Advocate", which is also how he describes himself. Appropriately, then, Barbet Schroeder's documentary on Vergès, to be released in October 2007, is called Terror's Advocate (L'Avocat de la terreur).

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