Vichy Official Is Hospitalized Again

Maurice Papon, a former Cabinet minister on trial in Bordeaux for alleged World War II-era crimes against humanity, was hospitalized again, and the judge suspended the proceedings until Monday. Papon, 87, who underwent triple bypass heart surgery last year, was taken to a hospital in Pessac, near Bordeaux, reportedly suffering from bronchitis. On Wednesday, Papon told the BBC that he was being used as a scapegoat for the crimes of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime. Papon is accused of arresting and deporting 1,690 Jews from Bordeaux while he was a police supervisor. Most died at the Auschwitz concentration camp. On the second day of trial, Papon was briefly hospitalized because of chest pains.