A lawyer for the plaintiffs in the war crimes trial of Maurice Papon angered relatives of Holocaust victims when he said Papon should not be given a life sentence. Arno Klarsfeld said Papon had acted out of sheer ambition when he worked as a high-ranking official for France’s collaborationist Vichy regime, but that he had no desire to see the deaths of Jews. Papon is accused of ordering the arrest for deportation of 1,560 Jews, 223 of them children, during World War II.
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