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      • However, Papon — who never expressed remorse and at one point fled France to avoid jail — lived out his final years a free man, released from Paris' dour La Sante prison on Sept. 18, 2002, because of failing health.
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  2. Maurice Papon ( French pronunciation: [mɔʁis papɔ̃, moʁ-]; 3 September 1910 – 17 February 2007) was a French civil servant and Nazi collaborator who was convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the occupation of France. Papon led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician.

  3. Feb 18, 2007 · 'Maurice Papon fought till the end [and] died a free man', Vuillemin said. Papon, who was promoted five times during the German occupation, insisted he knew nothing of the Holocaust at the time...

  4. However, Papon — who never expressed remorse and at one point fled France to avoid jail — lived out his final years a free man, released from Paris' dour La Sante prison on Sept. 18, 2002,...

  5. Jul 16, 2021 · 2 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. On the night of October 17, 1961, Parisian police under the command of Maurice Papon attacked Algerian men, women, and children who were demonstrating peacefully against a curfew. The police beat many of them to death.

  6. By Craig R. Whitney. Feb. 18, 2007. Maurice Papon, a prominent French functionary convicted in 1998 of complicity in Nazi crimes against humanity during the German occupation in World War II,...

  7. Feb 18, 2007 · He lived out his final years a free man, released from Paris's La Santé prison on Sept. 18, 2002, because of failing health. The Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld said that the decision to free him...

  8. Feb 18, 2007 · Maurice Papon, a prominent French functionary convicted in 1998 of complicity in Nazi crimes against humanity during the German occupation in World War II, died yesterday at a private clinic...

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