At a time when war, and its procession of atrocities, is raging in Europe, French justice, which is investigating these recent crimes, is also engaged with its foreign partners in a race against time concerning the atrocities of the Second world War.
The legal, historical and memorial stakes thus echo the history of the present time.
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In recent years, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat), and its "crimes against humanity, war crimes and offences" unit, sometimes pursuing or concluding investigations initiated by the Paris prosecutor's office, have thus handled several files relating to the second conflict. global.
A preliminary investigation for crimes against humanity is thus underway on the roundup of the Old Port of Marseille, January 24, 1943. That day, the German occupier and its French collaborators, mobilizing police and gendarmes, expelled 20,000 inhabitants .
Their neighborhood was razed and some 800 people were deported to the Sachsenhausen camp.
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