The proceedings against French war crimes suspect Maurice Papon should be speeded up, the judge in the trial told prosecution and defense lawyers. The slow pace of the trial against the former Vichy official and postwar French Cabinet minister has diluted the case against Papon and may lead to his acquittal, according to observers.
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