French free Nazi collaborator

WARTIME collaborator Maurice Papon, convicted of sending French Jews to Nazi death camps, was jeered as he walked out of a Paris prison yesterday after an appeal court ordered his release.

Jewish groups were stunned at the court’s ruling that the 92-year-old is too old and sick to serve out the rest of his 10-year sentence.

The ruling provoked outpourings of frustration and dismay from Holocaust survivors and others who fought a long battle to bring Papon to justice.