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Court Considers
Papon's Crimes

Paris (JTA) — A French court is
set to hear arguments in March
whether former Cabinet minister
Maurice Papon will stand trial for
crimes against humanity.
Mr. Papon, 84, is accused of
sending nearly 1,700 Jews to Nazi
concentration camps.
The court, in the southwestern
city of Bordeaux, where Mr. Pa-
pon was a senior official for the
Vichy collaborationist regime dur-
ing World War II, will hear a
French state prosecutor's report
requesting that Mr. Papon face
trial.
The debate, which will include
defense motions, is scheduled for
March 6-8.
The court is expected to make
a decision a few weeks later.
Mr. Papon stands accused of
signing orders to arrest and de-
port 1,690 Jews — 223 of them
children — from 1942 to 1944.
Most of the deportees never re-
turned from the Nazi death
camps.
Mr. Papon has denied the
charges against him, saying that
he used his position in the Resis-
tance to save Jews. Mr. Papon re-
portedly joined the Resistance
movement near the end of 1943.
After the liberation, he went on
to an illustrious postwar career,
serving as police chief of Paris be-
tween 1958 and 1967, then as
budget minister in the French
Cabinet during the 1970s.
Jewish groups, lawyers and for-
mer Resistance members have
long felt that successive French
governments were obstructing the
judicial process, hoping that Mr.
Papon would die before a trial
took place that would recall a pe-
riod many French people would
rather forget.
Relatives of the deportees ac-
cuse Mr. Papon of organizing 10
convoys that took Jews to the
death camps.
But the prosecutor, relying on
documents bearing Mr. Papon's
signature, said in his report that
Mr. Papon had authorized only
four of the convoys and that he
was apparently unaware of the
deportees' fate.
The announcement of a date
for the court hearing gave rela-
tives of the victims a glimmer of
hope that Mr. Papon might finally
be brought to trial.
Mr. Papon was first sued in
1981 for crimes against human-
ity. He was charged again in 1983
and 1984, but the charges were
thrown out on technicalities.
If he goes to trial, Mr. Papon
will be the second French citizen
to face charges of committing
crimes against humanity.
The first was Paul Touvier, in-
telligence chief of the Lyon mili-
tia, who was convicted last year
and jailed for life after more than
40 years on the run.

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