A convicted Nazi collaborator plans to seek a pardon from French President Jacques Chirac. Maurice Papon’s lawyer said the pardon would be sought because of his 89-year-old client’s failing health. Papon, who was sentenced in France last year to 10 years in jail for helping deport Jews to Nazi concentration camps, began his jail sentence in a prison hospital last Friday after Switzerland turned him over to French officials.
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