French Court Orders Release of Nazi Collaborator Maurice Papon

Hey, let's release the Nazi on humanitarian grounds! Surely he deserves it!

Anyway, Papon was allowed to walk the streets for over fifty years until the French government decided it was time to put him in jail. So they did. For three years. But what did he do that was so terrible?

Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1998 for helping deport 1,600 Jews from southern France to Nazi concentration camps, where many died. At the time, he was in charge of the police in Bordeaux.

Surely he's suffered enough!