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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.

 

Crédits photo : Ceyrac/AFP

Le Figaro

http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070217.WWW000000081_maurice_papon_est_mort.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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

 

 

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

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/
une-carriere-au-service-de-l-etat_494880.html

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

 

 

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

http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2007/08/16/
retrocontroverse-1998-fallait-il-juger-maurice-papon_944972_3232.html

http://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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1543051/Maurice-Papon.html

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

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

http://www.liberation.fr/societe/010121721-la-mort-de-maurice-papon

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

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite/2007/02/17/
01001-20070217ARTWWW90081-maurice_papon_est_mort.php

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

http://www.liberation.fr/societe/0101233879-
maurice-papon-devant-ses-juges-bordeaux-1942-
papon-entre-rafles-et-deportations-la-signature-de-l-accuse-
est-absente-des-rapports-du-service-des-questions-juives

http://www.larousse.fr/archives/journaux_annee/1998/75/
proces_papon_la_france_vichyssoise_devant_ses_juges

http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/justice-et-faits-divers/video/CAC97131914/
ouverture-du-proces-papon.fr.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/10/17/
la-bataille-de-paris-racontee-par-les-archives-du-monde_1588024_3224.html

http://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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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