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Answer: ROZ & SHERM presents the premier
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fter 18 years of legal
maneuvering, convicted
Nazi collaborator Maurice
Papon is finally behind bars.
But questions persist about the
preferential treatment the 89-year-old
former Vichy official appeared to have
enjoyed.
Swiss police seized Papon late last
week in a hotel in the swanky ski
resort of Gstaadt and whisked him
back to France, where he was taken to
a prison hospital.
Papon had fled to Switzerland last
week before a Supreme Court appeals
hearing, which upheld his 10-year
prison sentence for crimes against
humanity. He was convicted of help-
ing deport some 1,500 Jews to Nazi
death camps during World War II,
when he was supervisor of Bordeaux's
Service for Jewish Questions and the
second-ranking official in the area for
the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
At the beginning of his trial in
Bordeaux in October 1997, a presiding
judge allowed Papon to remain free dur-
ing the proceedings in an unusual deci-
sion that triggered outrage among the
civil plaintiffs — most of them relatives
of Jews deported to Nazi death camps.
This is why, even after his convic-
tion, Papon stayed out of prison pend-
ing his Supreme Court appeal. When
he fled into exile on Oct. 10, he was
certain he would lose his appeal.
"The question that has to be
answered is whether he benefitted from
any collusion or help in fleeing," said
Alain Jakubowicz, president of a regional
branch of the CRIF, France's umbrella
group for Jewish organizations, and
lawyer for B'nai Brith France in the case.
A number of measures could have
been taken to avoid his flight. Months
before his initial trial, Nazi-hunter
Serge Klarsfeld asked the Justice
Ministry to confiscate Papon's passport.
But because of Papon's age and the
high positions he had held in postwar
France — Paris police chief and bud-
get minister — Klarsfeld's demand
was ignored.
From the moment the first charges
were filed against Papon in 1981,
French government officials repeatedly
intervened to prevent the case from
coming to court and dredging up mem-
ories of France's collaboration with its
Nazi occupiers. Papon is the only senior
French official to be taken to account
for Vichy's anti-Semitic policies.

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1999

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