Then everything happened very quickly. Appointed by Minister Robert Badinter, he became, in his turn, for four years, the director of Judicial Services. This was followed by his appointment as attorney general of Bordeaux, and then of Paris. To illustrate his “second life”, as Claude Jorda says, a position as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal, just established by the UN, was entrusted to him during the Balkans war. He then assumed the role of president. During the conflict in Rwanda, he was appointed the first French judge of the International Criminal Court.
Imaginary
His return to Bordeaux, for personal reasons, led the former magistrate to his “third life”: writing. “Tired of writing reports, preparing speeches, drafting official texts… I preferred to let myself be carried away by the imaginary,” he says. This is how his first novel was born about ten years ago, followed by a second shortly after.
For “God had finally taken care of it,” which has just been released, Claude Jorda invites the reader to immerse themselves in a chance encounter between a woman and a man who are opposites. On the road to Compostela, each pushes their wheelbarrow of personal burdens. “Life being made up of chances, I wanted to materialize this notion through writing.”
