Most Hated Man in France on Trial
LONDON, March 4. The trial of Pierre Pucheu, former Vichy Minister of the Interior, and one of the most hated men in France, began on Saturday, reports the British United Press’s Algiers correspondent. The charges include activities against the ; sanctity of the State, treason and illegal arrests. Pucheu denied the court’s right to try him and declared that only the French people could judge his actions. He did not attempt to suppress the French Resistance Movement and said he actually helped Henri Fresnay, a member of the French National Committee of Liberation to escape from occupied France. The correspondent says Pucheu leit France after the Allied landings in North Africa. He was the founder oi the Vichy police system modelled on German lines and is alleged to have selected 60 hostages whom the Germans shot after the assassination oi Colonel Holtz at Nantes in 1941.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 54, 7 March 1944, Page 3
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152Most Hated Man in France on Trial Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 54, 7 March 1944, Page 3
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