A growing number of French people are questioning the medical ruling - and the law - that enabled a Vichy war criminal to walk free, writes Jon Henley.
September 2002
Writ large
Papon's sick note
Marcel Berlins: How the war criminal walked free early and why the male solicitor is heading for extinction.
Fight to put Papon back in jail begins
An attempt to put the war criminal Maurice Papon back in prison began yesterday on government orders, amid street protests and reports that the former Vichy official, jailed for crimes against humanity, was faking his illness.
'If you do release him then my lost family will die a second time'
Key dates in the Maurice Papon affair
Vichy collaborator freed on health grounds
July 2002
France denied Papon fair trial, court rules
The European court of human rights ruled yesterday that France had wrongly denied the Vichy-era Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon his right of appeal.
July 2001
Fury over call to free collaborator Papon
Holocaust survivors and victims' relatives have reacted with fury to a call by 17 French luminaries, including resistance fighters and two former prime ministers, for the jailed wartime collaborator Maurice Papon to be released on humanitarian grounds.
January 2001
French row erupts over release of Nazi collaborator
Papon seeks freedom
October 1999
Swiss extradite Nazi collaborator Papon
Luck running out in global game of hide and seek
Interpol issues warrant for French war criminal
French justice on trial as Papon flees
March 1999
News in brief
Papon loses libel case
February 1999
Papon suit raises racist ghost
Another layer of France's racist past was uncovered at the weekend when a state prosecutor officially recognised that dozens of Algerians had been massacred by police during a peace march in Paris 38 years ago, when Maurice Papon was chief of police.
