A French Nazi collaborator jailed last month after he fled to Switzerland was moved from a prison hospital to an ordinary cell. The lawyer for Maurice Papon said he has appealed to prison authorities to move Papon back to a hospital room. Papon was sentenced to a 10-year term last year after he was found guilty of helping deport some 1,500 Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II, when he was supervisor of Bordeaux’s Service for Jewish Questions and the second- ranking official in the area for the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
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