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Survey after 64 years:
Maillé massacre in 1944: a German magistrate on-site investigation
AFP - Tuesday, July 15, 12:10
MAILLE (Indre-et-Loire) (AFP) - The Attorney General of Dortmund and a police officer arrived in Stuttgart on Tuesday Maillé to investigate a massacre in the village on 25 August 1944 by the army of the Third Reich, establishes an AFP journalist.
Since 2004, the German prosecutor Ulrich Maass has opened a criminal investigation against the war crime committed Maillé, near Chinon.
"I am ashamed of what has been committed here by the Germans and I apologize to everyone. I am surprised and touched by the welcome I received," said shortly after his arrival Mr. Maass, accompanied by the commissioner Bernard Schneider and a translator.
On the day of the liberation of Paris, 60 to 80 German soldiers killed by bullets or knives 124 people, including 44 children, from the village who were then about 500.
According to the prosecutor of Tours, Philippe Varin, the German delegation should stay for three days on site in order to "try to examine witnesses, to identify the German units that participated in the massacre and, of course, individuals ". This is an event quite exceptional, "he said.
There will be "a recognition of geographical locations, a number of archives are available at the House of Remembrance", a French prosecutor said.
"In the archives of the United Nations, I found a file of a dozen pages about the massacre but with little details and a name written in several spellings. The Gustav Schlüter, sentenced in absentia in 1952 in Bordeaux and death in 1965 at his home in Germany, "said Maass. He recalled that "these war crimes imprescriptible remained in Germany while in France the requirement is 30 years.
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