Maurice Papon sued a French historian who accused the convicted Nazi collaborator of being responsible for the deaths of dozens of Algerian demonstrators during an October 1961 street protest in Paris. Papon, who was Paris police chief at the time, admitted in a French court last week that about 30 Algerians were fished from the Seine River in the weeks that followed the protest, but added that they were killed during factional fighting between Algerian nationalist groups. Last April, Papon, 88, was found guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity for his involvement in the deportation of Jews from wartime France.
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