Society. Rafles in Marseilles in 1943: Justice Recognizes a "Crime Against Humanity"
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In January 1943, the working-class district of Saint-Jean was dynamited by the Nazis and the French police, 15,000 people were deported. Justice announces the end of the investigation launched by a complaint from several survivors. Interview with the lawyer Pascal Luongo, at the origin of the recognition of this crime against humanity.
More than 80 years after the destruction of the Old Port and the deportation of hundreds of people, a historic decision has just been handed down by the French justice system A dynamic Marseille district
On Wednesday, French justice called "crime against humanity" the raids carried out in Marseilles in the district of the Old Port in January 1943, a recognition long claimed by survivors and their descendants.
For the first time, French justice qualified as a “crime against humanity” the roundups carried out in the Old Port in Marseille in 1943, at the decision of the Nazis.
These roundups were carried out in January 1943 by decision of the Nazis, with the active collaboration of the Vichy regime, in several sectors of the historic heart of the city considered to be “a pigsty” and a nest of resistance.
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However, the judicial investigation opened in 2019 did not identify those still alive involved in these operations.
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