Maurice Papon and Yves Jouffa: a double standard?
Maurice Papon, eighty-six years of age, stands accused of having, between July 1942 and May 1944 – a period during which he was general secretary of the Gironde préfecture (“governorship” of the Bordeaux département) – participated in the sending away of 1,560 persons of Jewish origin, until then interned in the camp at Mérignac, to that of Drancy,…