Claude Buffet

{{Short description|French criminal (1933–1972)}}

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| birth_name = Claude Gabriel Buffet

| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|05|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Reims, France

| cause = Execution by guillotine

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|11|28|1933|05|19|df=y}}

| death_place = La Santé Prison, 14th arrondissement of Paris, France

| conviction = Murder (15 October 1970)
Hostage crisis and murder with aggravating circumstances (29 June 1972)

| conviction_penalty = Life imprisonment (15 October 1970)
Death (29 June 1972)

| partners = Roger Bontems

| motive = Money

| victims = Françoise Bésimensky, 26 (1967)
Nicole Comte, 35, and Guy Girardot, 27 (1971)

| weapons = Gun, knife

| locations = Paris (1967)
Clairvaux Prison (1971)

| date = 18 January 1967
21-22 September 1971

| apprehended = 8 February 1967
22 September 1971

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Claude Buffet (19 May 1933 – 28 November 1972) was a French criminal who was executed along with his accomplice, Roger Bontems (1936–1972), on 28 November 1972 by guillotine at La Santé Prison and buried at Ivry Cemetery. Both men had been convicted of the murders of prison warder Guy Girardot and prison nurse Nicole Comte in 1971, whom they had taken hostage while Buffet was already serving a life sentence in Clairvaux Prison. Robert Badinter was their defence lawyer.{{cite news |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Clyde H. |title=French Argue Death Penalty Anew as 2 Are Guillotined |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/11/29/issue.html |access-date=13 April 2022 |work=New York Times |date=29 November 1972 |page=20 |language=en |url-access=subscription}}