Maurice Papon (; 3 September 1910 – 17 February 2007) was a
French civil servant, leading the police in major prefectures and in Paris during the Nazi Occupation of France and into the 1960s. Forced to resign because of allegations of abuses, he became an industrial leader and
Gaullist politician. In 1998 he was convicted of
crimes against humanity for his participation in the deportation of more than 1600
Jews to concentration camps during
World War II when he was secretary general for police in Bordeaux.