France rejected the demand of convicted Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon that the state pay his court bills. Papon, who was sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for ordering the arrest for deportation of 1,560 Jews during World War II, based his demand on the grounds that he was working for the state when he committed his crimes. Papon will not have to serve his prison sentence until all his appeals are concluded — a process that could take years.
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