The French Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an Oct. 21 appeal from a former Vichy official convicted last year of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting 1,560 Jews, 223 of them children, to Nazi death camps. Maurice Papon, who also served in several postwar French governments, has not served any of his 10-year jail sentence because of ill health.
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