Francis Szpiner

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 since 2020. He was an attorney for several prominent French politicians. He was born as the youngest of three siblings and the only son into a family with a Jewish-Polish background. His grandparents fled from the Nazis and his parents were printers. After he attended high school at the Lycée Jacques-Decour, 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 Paris Bar Association in 1975. 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. Szpiner represented Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the former Emperor of the Centr…

Filmography

All (6)Movies (4)TV (2)

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François Baroin ou les hésitations du destin

2025 · Self

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La fraternité : les secrets de l'Ordre du Temple solaire

2023 · Self

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The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor

2021 · Self

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Echoes from a Sombre Empire

1990 · Self

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Story of Women

1988 · Book

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Apostrophes

1975 · Self