Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sixty five years later
The government of France has finally, publicly admitted their guilt in the arrest and transportation of French Jews to the Nazi death camps.
The ruling, which will be recorded in the official state legislative journal, marks the first time any French judicial body has acknowledged in such stark terms the government's role in Nazi-era atrocities.Is this how long it will take to admit our guilt for Bushovik torture camps?
Calling for a "formal admission of the state's responsibility and of the prejudice collectively suffered", the court said it had concluded that acts such as the arrest, internment and dispatching of Jews to transit camps were clear indicators of the government's guilt. "As they led to the deportation of people considered Jewish by the Vichy regime, the acts and activities of the state ... became its responsibility," it added.
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