He was appointed on 13 February 2008 as French Ambassador-at-large for Human Rights by Nicolas Sarkozy and Bernard Kouchner. In 2013, he was appointed as France's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark by President Francois Hollande and Minister Laurent Fabius. He survived the 2015 Copenhagen shootings, Islamist terror attack on February 14, 2015 where he was targeted together with other activists.