(FILES) This file photo taken on January 25, 2011 in Bobigny, outside Paris, shows French former lawyer, politician and President of the European Parliament Simone Veil taking part in a ceremony to launch a project to transform an old railway station into a memory place to pay respect to the 22.000 Jews of Drancy camp, deported from that place to the gas chambers in Nazi camps. Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor who played a leading role in legalising contraception and abortion in France, died on June 30, 2017 aged 89, her son said. Veil, an icon of French politics and the first president of the European Parliament, died at her home, Jean Veil said. / AFP PHOTO / BORIS HORVAT