Maurice Papon
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Maurice Papon was a French civil servant, mass murderer and Nazi collaborator who was convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the occupation of France. Papon led the police in major pref
Papon in 1967
Maurice Papon shaking Tony Benn's hand during the presentation of the Concorde.
Papon was incarcerated at La Santé Prison, in Paris, in 1999.
Mehdi Ben Barka
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Mehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan nationalist, Arab socialist, politician, revolutionary, Marxist, anti-imperialist, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces and secretary of the Tricontine
Maurice Papon
…demonstrators were deliberately killed by the Paris police. Forced to resign in 1967 after the suspicious forced disappearance of the Moroccan Marxist Mehdi Ben Barka, with de Gaulle's support he was named as president of Sud Aviation, the company which co-developed Concorde. After May 1968, Papon was elected as a…
Mehdi Ben Barka Anefo
A commemorative plaque where Ben Barka went missing
Bachir Ben Barka, son of Mehdi Ben Barka, in 2016