A government commissioner recommended that France should pay part of the damages that Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon was ordered to pay Holocaust victims. The crimes for which Papon, 91, was convicted cannot be detached from his wartime duties with the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, Commissioner Sophie Boisard said last Friday.
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