The war crimes trial of Maurice Papon resumed after the wife of the former official in France’s pro-Nazi Vichy regime died last week. Papon’s lawyer presented his summation in the trial, which is expected to conclude later this week. Papon is charged with ordering the arrest for deportation of 1,560 Jews, 223 of them children, during the Holocaust.
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