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...measure of the High Court of Justice in Paris with a shrewd and baleful eye. As his treasonable acts were recited, the arch-collaborator of Vichyfrance calculatingly sized up the opposition: white-haired André Mornet, prosecutor of Mata Hari and Pétain; red-robed Judge Pierre Mongibeaux, who had sentenced the Marshal two months ago; the jury of resistance leaders and parliamentarians...
...Well, then, condemn me now!" he yelled. "At least the situation will be clear then!" The enraged Mongibeaux bellowed at the guards. Pierre Laval, thrice Premier of France, was hauled away to his cell...
Charges enough remained. Mongibeaux asked Laval who brought him back to power in 1942, after Petain ordered his arrest. When Laval did not answer, the Judge did. "It was Abetz!" (Nazi representative to Vichyfranee). Laval cried foul: ''You asked me a question and gave the answer...
...Take him out!" Mongibeaux screamed. That time, Laval stayed out. With or without him, his trial would not last very long...
...minutes Presiding Judge Pierre Mongibeaux intoned judgment. The verdict: guilty of intelligence with the enemy. Sentence: national dishonor and death. Recommendation: in view of the condemned's age, the death sentence should not be carried...