What is Maurice Papon?
{{unreferenced|date=June 2012}} {{Infobox person |name = Maurice Papon |image = Maurice Papon 1.JPG |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|09|03}} |birth_place = [[Gretz-Armainvilliers]], [[France]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|02|17|1910|09|03}} |death_place = [[Pontault-Combault]], France |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = |nationality = French |other_names = |known_for = Participating in the deportation of over 1600 Jews during World War II, and ordering the 1961 and 1962 Paris massacres of demonstrators for Algeria's independence from colonial France. |education = |alma_mater = |employer = |occupation = Civil servant and businessman |home_town = |title = |salary = |networth = |height = |weight = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |party = |boards = |religion = |spouse = |partner = |children = |parents = |relatives = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Maurice Papon''' (September 3, 1910 – February 17, 2007) was a [[French people|French]] [[civil servant]]. He led the police in major prefectures and in [[Paris]] during the [[Nazi Occupation of France]] and into the 1960s. In 1998 he was convicted of [[crimes against humanity]]. This was because he helped in making more than 1600 [[Jew]]s move to [[concentration camp]]s during [[World War II]]. He died of congestive [[heart failure]]. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Papon, Maurice}} [[Category:1910 births]] [[Category:2007 deaths]] [[Category:People from Seine-et-Marne]] [[Category:French businesspeople]] [[Category:French criminals]] [[Category:French mayors]] [[Category:French people of World War II]] [[Category:Government ministers of France]] [[Category:French police officers]] [[Category:Politicians from Île-de-France]]