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History > WW2 > 1939-1945
Axis powers, Germany, Europe > Antisemitism, Adolf Hitler, Nazi era, Holocaust / Shoah, Samudaripen
France
Régime de Vichy, Collaboration, Antisemitism, Holocaust
Maurice Papon 1910-2007
Condamné en 1998 à 10 ans de réclusion, Maurice Papon a été incarcéré pendant près de trois ans avant d'être remis en liberté le 18 septembre 2002 en raison de son état de santé.
Photograph: Ceyrac AFP
Le Figaro
http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/
Maurice Papon 1910-2007
prominent French functionary convicted in 1998 of complicity in Nazi crimes against humanity during the German occupation in World War II
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Tall and self-assured, Mr. Papon looked the model French elite civil servant, and for 50 years he seemed to be one, overcoming the taint of collaboration after the war to be taken under the wing of the hero of the Resistance, Charles de Gaulle.
Mr. Papon became a powerful police official and eventually a Gaullist government minister before his past finally caught up with him in his old age, which then abbreviated the punishment that survivors of his victims believed he deserved.
He was assigned to the civil administration in Bordeaux by the collaborationist government in Vichy, but as the tide of war turned, he developed contacts with Resistance leaders who vouched for him after the Liberation.
After the war, Mr. Papo rose through the bureaucracy.
He became prefect of police in Paris, one of the country’s top security posts, in 1958, when divisions over how to deal with Algeria’s war for independence threatened to bring on civil war in France.
After de Gaulle agree to take power under a new French Constitution, he confirmed Mr. Papon in the key police position. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/world/europe/18papon.html
On the evening of 17 October 1961, at the height of the Franco-Algerian war, tens of thousands of Algerian protesters, including women and children, from around Paris gathered at various landmarks to demonstrate against what they considered a "racist and discriminatory" curfew imposed against them.
The mobilisation had been organised by the Paris wing of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), an organisation that was fighting for Algeria's independence from France and had been accused of carrying out attacks on Paris police that left a dozen dead.
It was intended to be a peaceful demonstration, but Maurice Papon, the Paris police chief, ordered his officers to stamp out the protests.
As the Algerians gathered, the police acted swiftly and brutally, firing on protesters and arresting an estimated 11,500 who were herded on to buses and taken to makeshift detention centres where many claimed they were beaten and held for days without food.
Claims that officers had beaten protesters and dumped them into the Seine appeared to be confirmed when bodies were washed up on the banks of the river. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/17/france-remembers-algerian-massacre
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