[wintertime]

The police refused to pursue the anti-Semitic motivations of the kidnappers in spite of the fact that,
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It was the weaselly French police ( not the Germans) that rounded up the Jews in WWII and sent them to concentration camps.

[Carley]

The French police rounded up children from a safe harbour and turned them over to the nazis.

The nazis had not even asked for the children to be turned in.

Something in their psyche to this day, that needs cleansing.

[silverleaf]

the vichy tradition is still strong with them...

[Jewbacca]

“It was the weaselly French police ( not the Germans) that rounded up the Jews in WWII and sent them to concentration camps.”

That is correct. I exist because French cops fight as well as French generals.

My family was ratted out by what we (my grandparents) believed to be friends and neighbors, people with whom my grandfather had been with since diapers.

I am personally shocked that Sarkozy was elected.