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Paris, French Fourth Republic>FranceThe Republicans (France)>The Republicans| education = Lycée Jacques-DecourParis 2 Panthéon-Assas University>Panthéon-Assas University| profession = Lawyer}}Francis Szpiner (born 22 March 1954) is a French lawyer, writer and politician of The Republicans who serves as the mayor of the 16th arrondissement of Paris between 2020 and 2023.WEB, Paris : Francis Szpiner, un avocat célèbre maire du 16e arrondissement,weblink Le Parisien, 20 July 2020, 31 August 2020, French, He was elected Senator of Paris in September 2023.WEB, Francis Szpiner élu sénateur : mairie du XVIe cherche remplaçant pas trop encombrant,weblink Le Parisien, 9 January 2024, French, He was an attorney for several prominent French politicians.

Education and early life

He was born as the youngest of three siblings and the only son into a family with a Jewish-Polish background.WEB, Nivelle, Pascale, L'ai-je bien défendu ?,weblink 19 December 2021, Libération, fr, His grandparents fled from the Nazis and his parents were printers. After he attended high school at the Lycée Jacques-Decour,WEB, Francis Szpiner,weblink 17 December 2021, Grands Avocats, fr-FR, he studied law and then joined, in the early 1970s, the Institute of Criminology in Paris of the Panthéon-Assas University. He became a lawyer and a member of the {{Interlanguage link|Ordre des avocats de Paris|lt=Paris Bar Association|fr}} in 1975.WEB, Bariety, Aude, 6 April 2021, Me Francis Szpiner, au nom du droit... et de la politique,weblink 18 December 2021, Le Figaro, fr,

Professional career

Throughout his career as a lawyer he represented several prominent clients before court and was a legal counselor to Jacques Chirac, Madame Claude or Bernard Tapie.WEB, Gréco, Betrand, Statut de Paris : le maire du 16e, Francis Szpiner, "lance un appel à Hidalgo",weblink 19 December 2021, Le Journal du Dimanche, fr, Szpiner represented Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the former Emperor of the Central African Republic during his trial for treason and murder in the Central African capital Bangui.WEB, Shoumatoff, Alex, Alex Shoumatoff, June 1987, Fall of a savage emperor,weblink 17 December 2021, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair, In June 1987, Bokassa was sentenced to death for murder, but acquitted from charges on cannibalism.NEWS, Goldsmith, Michael, Michael Goldsmith, 13 June 1987, Bokassa sentence to death to die for Murders during reign, en-US, Washington Post,weblink 18 December 2021, 0190-8286, In 2003, during Abdullah Öcalan's appeal at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, he was a lawyer representing the Turkish Government.WEB, 12 March 2003, Case of Öcalan v. Turkey,weblink European Court of Human Rights, The ECHR ruled that Öcalan did not have a fair trial and ordered Turkey to pay a remuneration.WEB, 12 March 2003, Case of Öcalan v. Turkey,weblink European Court of Human Rights, He represented the former French Prime Minister and then Mayor of Bordeaux Alain Juppé in a trial, in which Juppé was accused of providing fictitious jobs in the city hall of Paris.WEB, Bio express. Francis Szpiner avocat depuis 1975,weblink 17 December 2021, Le Progres, FR-fr, Juppé was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence and given 10 year political ban in January 2004.WEB, 30 January 2004, Former French prime minister convicted in fake jobs scheme,weblink 18 December 2021, NBC, Then he was the attorney for the relatives of the murdered Jewish Moroccan Ilhan Halimi. Halimi was sequestrated and killed by members of the Gang of Barbarians. The prosecution alleged Halimi was murdered for being a Jew and Szpiner obtained a life sentence for the gang leader in 2006, but demanded higher sentences for his accomplices.WEB, 11 July 2009, Gang leader receives life in prison for killing,weblink 19 December 2021, NBC News, en, He also represented the entrepreneur Hubert Haddad who had been accused of bribing the President of French Polynesia Gaston Flosse.WEB, Viatge, Jean-Pierre, La santé d'Hubert Haddad met en question la suite du procès,weblink 18 December 2021, Tahiti infos, les informations de Tahiti, fr, Haddad and Flosse were both sentenced to five year imprisonment in October 2012.WEB, rédaction, La, 4 October 2012, 5 ans de prison requis pour Gaston Flosse et Hubert Haddad,weblink 18 December 2021, Radio1 Tahiti, fr-FR, He represented the victims of Carlos the Jackal.WEB, 12 December 1997, Terrorist Carlos the Jackal to stand trial for 1975 murders,weblink 18 December 2021, CNN, For Carlos he obtained a life imprisonment. In 2013 he co-founded the Law Firm Stas & AssociatesWEB, CABINET D'AVOCATS STAS & ASSOCIÉS - Szpiner Toby Ayela Semerdjian,weblink 19 December 2021, STAS avocats associés, fr-FR, In 2015 he represented Qatar who sued Florian Phillipot for repeatedly accusing Qatar of financing terrorism.WEB, 4 September 2016, Nicolas Sarkozy rallié par Francis Szpiner... avocat d'Alain Juppé et du Qatar,weblink 18 December 2021, www.marianne.net, fr, He represented the Government of Senegal in a trial against the mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall.WEB, Wemaere, Alcyone, 10 July 2018, Sénégal : au procès en appel de Khalifa Sall, deux avocats français face-à-face,weblink 19 December 2021, France 24, fr, The mayor of Dakar was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for corruption charges in 2018 but pardoned by the Senegalese president Macky Sall in September 2019.NEWS, 29 September 2019, Khalifa Sall, Dakar's ex-mayor, pardoned by Senegal president, en-GB, BBC,weblink 19 December 2021, The authorities of the city of Paris's announced on 8 May 2024, that a high street, ergo a boulevard in France will be named after the 2024 murdered Vladimir Putin's opponent, Alexei Navalny, and designated as L 'avenue Alexei Navalny for the 16th arrondissement, very close to the Russian embassy in Paris, with a monument memorial for the generations to come, after the iniative by Francis Szpiner's ideaweblink

Political career

In 1990, he was appointed chief of staff to Alexandre Léontieff, then president of the government of French Polynesia; in 2002, he ran against Arnaud Montebourg in the sixth district of Saône-et-Loire.WEB, 16 May 2012, Francis Szpiner, suppléant d'Eric Raoult,weblink 18 December 2021, Le Parisien, fr-FR, In the municipal elections of 2020, he was elected as the mayor of the 16th arrondissement of Paris representing The Republicans.NEWS, Nelken, Sacha, Cosnard, Denis, 18 January 2020, Municipales à Paris : Francis Szpiner, un avocat vedette pour garder le 16e arrondissement à droite, fr, Le Monde,weblink 19 December 2021,

Books

• Fantôme de papierWEB, Szpiner, Francis, Francis Szpiner - livres et romans de l'auteur aux Editions Table Ronde,weblink 19 December 2021, www.editionslatableronde.fr, fr,
• Mat d'echecsBOOK,weblink Mat d'echecs - Francis Szpiner - Balland - Grand format - Le Hall du Livre NANCY, fr,
• Une affaire de femmes was adapted for screen by Claude Chabrol as A story of women.WEB, A story of women,weblink WEB, Rosenbaum, Jonathan, Jonathan Rosenbaum, 15 February 1990, Story of Women,weblink 19 December 2021, Chicago Reader, en-US,
• Une affaire si facileWEB, Aron, Matthieu, 22 November 2020, Quand maître Szpiner se met dans la tête d'une criminelle,weblink 19 December 2021, L'Obs, fr,

Recognition

• April 2021 Lawyer of the month by Le Figaro.
• 2011 Legion of Honour
• 2000 Received the rank of an Officer of the French Order of MeritWEB, 14 November 2000, Décret du 14 novembre 2000 portant promotion et nomination,weblink 1 January 2022, www.legifrance.gouv.fr,

References

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