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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/
20070217.WWW000000081_maurice_papon_est_mort.html - broken link

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

[ . . . ]

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. Papon 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.

https://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.

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/17/
france-remembers-algerian-massacre

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
maurice-papon

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/fr/article/france

https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/une-carriere-au-service-de-l-etat
_494880.html

https://www.humanite.fr/mot-cle/
maurice-papon

https://www.ina.fr/video/CAB97008223/
proces-papon-video.html -23 janvier 1997

https://archives.gironde.fr/actualites/
les-archives-du-proces-papon-br-mise-en-ligne-de-l-inventaire-373

https://archives.gironde.fr/n/
le-proces-maurice-papon-br-small-un-proces-sous-tension-small/n:407

https://expo-riss-proces-papon.memorialdelashoah.org/
le-deroule-du-proces.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Maurice_Papon

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Maurice_Papon

https://www.justice.gouv.fr/actualites/actualite/
ouverture-complete-archives-proces-maurice-papon - 27 January 2023

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/161021/
17-octobre-1961-emmanuel-macron-s-enfonce-dans-le-deni

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/10/16/
que-s-est-il-passe-le-17-octobre-1961-a-paris
_6098617_3224.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/10/16/
massacre-du-17-octobre-1961-
emmanuel-macron-denonce-des-crimes-inexcusables-
commis-sous-l-autorite-du-prefet-de-police-maurice-papon
_6098670_3224.html

https://www.humanite.fr/politique/17-octobre-1961/
17-octobre-1961-maurice-papon-architecte-du-massacre-724155 - 15 October 2021

https://www.humanite.fr/politique/maurice-papon/
histoire-papon-deuxieme-vie-dun-collabo - 3 April 2018

https://www.sudouest.fr/2011/04/14/
le-zele-de-papon-371516-2780.php

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2007/08/16/
retrocontroverse-1998-fallait-il-juger-maurice-papon
_944972_3232.html

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/
2000-ans-d-histoire/maurice-papon-8110060 - 20 February 2007

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/
world/europe/18papon.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/feb/19/guardianobituaries.france

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/18/secondworldwar.france

https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite/2007/02/18/01001-20070218ARTWWW90046-maurice_papon_sera_t_il_enterre_avec_la_legion_d_honneur_.php

https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/
maurice-papon-est-mort_462990.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2267611.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/sep/18/thefarright.france1

https://www.ina.fr/video/CAC97131914/
ouverture-du-proces-papon-video.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/10/17/
la-bataille-de-paris-racontee-par-les-archives-du-monde
_1588024_3224.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/10/17/
archives-du-monde-17-mars-1958-
maurice-papon-prend-immediatement-ses-fonctions-a-la-prefecture-de-police
_1588128_3224.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2002/09/19/
maurice-papon-une-carriere-francaise
_291060_3224.html

https://www.humanite.fr/-/-/
papon-un-opportuniste-sans-etats-dame - 8 October 1997

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