William Bourdon

William Bourdon born 1956 is a French lawyer of the Paris Bar Association who practices criminal law particularly specializing in whitecollar crime communications law and human rights He particularly specializes in defending the victims of globalization and crimes against humanity He has been with Bourdon Simoni Voituriez since 1979 He is widely considered one of the most powerful international lawyers William Bourdon is the son of engineer and manufacturer Philippe Bourdon the grandson of Pierre Bourdon former Michelin chief engineer and the greatgrandson of manufacturer Édouard Michelin founder of groupe Michelin He studied at Lycée JansondeSailly then at the Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne He holds a masters degree in Private law and is a graduate of Sciences Po Bourdon was Under SecretaryGeneral 19941995 then SecretaryGeneral of the Fédération internationale des droits de lhomme from 1995 to 2000 In October 2001 he founded Sherpa whose goal is to defend the victims of crimes committed by economic operators He is also currently the organizations president Sherpa is housed on the premises of France Libertés William Bourdon is a member of the Conseil dadministration administrative council of France Libertés and is the longtime lawyer of Danielle Mitterrand Bourdon was also the lawyer for Transparency International Survie and the Fédération des Congolais de la Diaspora FCD He is close to associations who provide help to foreign nationals without proper papers such as Cimade for whom he acted as an observer in 1992 Bourdon distinguished himself in criminal law in the 1980s for example with the defence of prostitutes in the Jobic affair a police commissioner accused of procuring before finally being released He then specialized in human rights SOS Racisme Chinese opponents genocide in Rwanda Augusto Pinochet protesters partisans of social struggle or far left militants In 2006 he defended SudPTT trade unionist Cyril Ferez who he said took a real beating from 15 or so CRS officers riot police for quite a while during a demonstration against a controversial law concerning work and education He also defended Yildune Lévy a close friend of Julien Coupat in the sabotage of SNCF overhead power lines two French detainees held at Guantánamo sentenced by French justice or the Peoples Mujahedin of Iran In 2009 Boudon defended André Barthélemy president of Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de lHomme before the criminal court of Bobigny for direct incitement of rebellion and deliberately impeding the movement of an aircraft for having opposed the manner in which two Congolese nationals were escorted back to the border He defended police commandant Philippe Pichon accused of leaking the police record files of two stars D Debbouze et Johnny Hallyday to publicize and denounce the systems flaws Its error rate was said to exceed 40 Source Article William Bourdon from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30