April 1998: at the end of a historic six-month trial, Maurice Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the arrest of 1,600 Jews while he was secretary general of the prefecture of Gironde between 1942 and 1944. This trial at the assizes marked minds:
Because he is the first, and only, of a Vichy official for complicity in crimes against humanity.
Because many witnesses were called to the bar.
Because justice had to finally be done.
At the time, Riss followed the entire trial for Charlie Hebdo, retracing the intensity of this historic moment through more than 400 cartoons. With his keen sense of observation, his constant focus on the victims and his incomparable talent, the cartoonist allows us to see every moment of this unique judicial moment.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the trial, Riss and the Shoah Memorial propose to discover a selection of these drawings never exhibited.
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Photo: The Papon trial, November 4, 1997. Riss. © Riss.
Free admission, on the 3rd floor of the Shoah Memorial in Paris
