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Juan Branco
Born (1989-08-26) 26 August 1989 (age 35)
Malaga, Spain
NationalityFrench, Spanish
EducationÉcole normale supérieure (Paris), Sciences Po Paris
OccupationLawyer
Parents

Juan Branco (born 26 August 1989 in Spain) is a French lawyer.

Biography

Branco was born in Estepona, near Malaga, in 1989. He studied philosophy and law at the École normale supérieure, La Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris. He became politically active as a student, when he protested French copyright law HADOPI.[1].

Recruited by the offfice of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in 2010, he entered the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2012 as an advisor to the Minister Laurent Fabius, before becoming a lector at the French department of Yale University and a visiting researcher to the Yale Law School. He defended his PhD at l'École normale supérieure in 2014, on the Germain Katanga ICC's case [2], and was recruited as a Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law. His doctoral studies received a prize from the International Criminal Court and the French Constitutiona Council. He was then invited at the Sapienza University.[2][better source needed].

He is the son of the Portuguese producer Paulo Branco.

Lawyer

As a legal adviser to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, he tried to obtain asylum for Assange in France and coordinated its legal team, which brought French Press to describe him as one of the « shadow men » of Julian Assange,[3].

In 2016, before he was admitted to the bar, he solicited Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the group directly involved in the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015 (in which 130 people were killed and 683 others were injured), proposing in a letter to help in his legal defense and claiming to be representing Julian Assange.[4][5]. One of the French lawyers representing Abdeslam characterized Brancos actions as attempted fraud.[6]

After his admission to the Bar of Paris, he became the lawyer of Jean-Luc Mélenchon until 2018. He has also represented his father Paulo Branco against Terry Gilliam in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote case.[7] as well as yellow jackets during the movement.

Recruited in 2018 by the UN in Central African Republic to investigate war crimes, he denounced a massacre committed by the MINUSCA. [8]

In 2018, he authored a submission to the International Criminal Court accusing EU leaders of crimes against humanity in the mediterranean sea. [9]

Intellectual work

Relying on his academic research and field work, he authored two essays on mass violence, published in 2016 and 2017 by Alain Badiou[10] and Michel Surya.[11].

In 2017, he authored a book, "Contre Macron", in which he severely attacked the President, accusing him of following an authoritarian path.

In 2019 he published the book "Crépuscule", a pamphlet in which he criticized the French president, which sold more than 130.000 copies.[12]

In 2020, he published a philosophical essay on Julian Assange.[13].

As a journalist, Branco authored an investigation on the Uramin case in 2015[14]. He also covered the Kivu conflict, Yemen and the Central African Republic Civil War for Le Monde diplomatique and Les Inrockuptibles.[15]

Political activism

Close to Dominique de Villepin, whom proposed him to direct his 2012 campaign, he became active in the The Greens (France) in the early 2010's, before participating in the campaign of future President François Hollande as an adviser to the future French Minister of Culture and Communications Aurélie Filippetti. After their breakout, he was described by her as "dangerous, intelligent and skillful", as "megalomaniacal, a compulsive liar and very, very manipulative", whilst he criticized her for betraying her political engagements.[16].

After becoming the lawyer of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he stood in the 2017 French legislative election for Seine-Saint-Denis's 12th constituency with the left-wing party La France Insoumise where he placed fourth.

As a vocal supporter of the Yellow vests movement, he became the lawyer of some of its main and more controverted figures, including Maxime Nicolle [17] and a critic of President of France Emmanuel Macron.

In 2018 he affirmed that the nomination of his former class-mate Gabriel Attal to the government resulted from his relationship with President's adviser Stephane Séjourné, hinting at a nepotism case. He was accused of outing the two individuals. [18].

In February 2020 he represented the Russian activist Petr Pavlensky both before and after the latter leaked sexually explicit videos depicting Benjamin Griveaux, then candidate in the mayoral elections for Paris, which triggered an intense turmoil and brought the Prosecution to try to oppose his designation. Accused by multiple outlets of being involved in the leak, he denied.

Wikipedia

Juan Branco has participated in the editing of Wikipedia pages, including his own and those of other living persons, for many years under the account User:brancojuan and others. He has been accused of trying to "settle accounts" by portraying opponents in a negative light, whilst portraying himself in a positive light. [19].

Bibliography

  • Réponses à Hadopi (Paris, Capricci, 2011, ISBN 978-2918040255)[20]
  • De l'affaire Katanga au contrat social global: Un regard sur la Cour pénale internationale (Paris, 2015, LGDJ-IUV, 2015, ISBN 978-2370320582)[21]
  • L'ordre et le monde (Paris, Fayard, 2016, ISBN 978-2213680880), edited by Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin[22]
  • D'après une image de Daesh (Paris, Lignes, 2017, ISBN 978-2-35526-164-0)[23]
  • Contre Macron (Edition Divergence, 2019, ISBN 979-1097088125)
  • Crépuscule (Paris, Au Diable Vauvert, 2019) ISBN 979-1030702606
  • Assange, l'antisouverain (Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2020) ISBN 978-2204133074

References

  1. ^ "Juan Branco | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  2. ^ a b "Juan Branco, portrait d'un lobbyiste militant de la liberté d'expression". Success Stories (in French). 2016-06-28. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  3. ^ "Juan Branco, l'homme dans l'ombre de Julien Assange - Le Supplément du 27/03 - CANAL+ - Vidéo dailymotion". Dailymotion. 2016-03-27. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  4. ^ "Quand Juan Branco écrivait à Salah Abdeslam". valeursactuelles.com. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2020..
  5. ^ "Juan Branco a écrit une lettre à Salah Abdeslam en 2016 pour le conseiller". rtl.fr. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020..
  6. ^ ""C'est un exercice illégal" : quand il sollicite le terroriste Abdeslam, Juan Branco... n'est pas encore avocat". marianne.net. 25 February 2020..
  7. ^ "Paris appeals court rules in favour of Paulo Branco on 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'". Screen. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  8. ^ Ross, Aaron. "U.N. fires Central Africa legal adviser who accused peacekeepers of..." Reuters.
  9. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/03/icc-submission-calls-for-prosecution-of-eu-over-migrant-deaths
  10. ^ "L'édito de Pierre Siankowski : pour en finir avec un certain état du monde". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  11. ^ "Livres en bref". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  12. ^ "Juan Branco et Maxime Nicolle à Lisbonne". sfrpresse.sfr.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  13. ^ https://www.lepoint.fr/livres/ce-que-juan-branco-dit-de-julian-assange-09-03-2020-2366377_37.php
  14. ^ "Les étranges affaires d'Areva en Afrique". Le Monde diplomatique. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ (in French) https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/gilets-jaunes/des-grandes-ecoles-aux-gilets-jaunes-en-passant-par-wikileaks-qui-est-juan-branco-l-auteur-de-crepuscule-en-guerre-contre-macron_3421861.html. Retrieved 2020-03-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ^ (in French) https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/juan-branco-itineraire-d-un-enfant-gate-devenu-activiste-sans-scrupule-20200218. Retrieved 2020-03-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ (in French) https://lincorrect.org/nous-serons-probablement-demain-lun-et-lautre-des-ennemis-principiels-juan-branco/. Retrieved 2020-03-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ^ "Sur Wikipédia, les vies rêvées de Juan Branco".
  20. ^ Library of the Congress
  21. ^ BNF reference
  22. ^ Editorial description of L'ordre et le monde
  23. ^ "Editorial description". 2020-02-25.
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