Nazi-era war criminal Maurice Papon was denied a French government pension. A parliamentary committee ruled that Papon’s pension should not be reinstated, the daily Liberation reported Wednesday. Papon, who served as a Cabinet minister in postwar French governments, was a senior Vichy official in southwest France during World War II.
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