The District Attorney’s Office in Bordeaux has asked the Court of Appeals to indict two former officials of the Vichy regime involved in the deportation of Jews during World War II.
Maurice Papon and Rene Bousquet, both 82, would be tried for crimes against humanity, the same charge of which the late former Gestapo chief in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, was convicted.
The court has not set a date for its reply.
Papon was secretary-general of the Vichy administration in the Bordeaux region of south-western France. He complied with orders from Bousquet, chief of the Vichy police, to arrest and deport the Jews of Bordeaux and the surrounding area.
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