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3月2日付け、「Bloomberg」によると、ホロコーストの犠牲者たちが、フランス政府を相手取って、ニューヨークで訴訟を起したとのこと。
訴えを起したのは、ナチの収容所の生き残りやその子孫達で、「7,5000人のユダヤ人とその他多くの ”要注意人物達”がナチの収容所へ移送される途中、現金や宝石、その他の貴重品を盗まれた」として、フランス国有鉄道とフランス政府の年金局を相手取っての訴訟とのことだ。
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Holocaust Victims Sue France, State Rail Over Thefts (Update1)
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- France's state-owned railway and a pension manager for
French civil servants stole cash, jewelry and other property from 75,000 Jews and tens of thousands of ``other undesirables'' deported to Nazi concentration camps, ex-prisoners and their relatives claim in a lawsuit filed in New York.
The plaintiffs are seeking damages from the French national railway, Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer; and pension manager Caisse des Depots et Consignations. The government of France is also a defendant. The complaint was filed on behalf of Holocaust victims detained in French holding camps or transported to Nazi concentration camps on SNCF trains. Plaintiffs include family members of former detainees and prisoners.
``France wrongfully took money and other assets from plaintiffs when they were interned at Drancy and other holding and transit camps while those camps were under the control of the French government,'' the suit says. ``The taking of property at the camps was organized and systematic.''
The suit, filed today in Manhattan federal court, is the latest to be brought on behalf of Holocaust victims and their relatives. In earlier litigation, German companies including Siemens AG and DaimlerChrysler AG pledged to help finance a 10 billion deutsche-mark fund for Nazi-era slave-laborers.
A telephone call to Agnes Von Der Muhll, the deputy press secretary at the French embassy in Washington, wasn't immediately returned.
`Ran the Trains'
The suit was filed by 26 individual plaintiffs, including an American man now living in Maryland who was shipped to Auschwitz from the French camps and a French man whose mother was deported from a camp.
``Everything she had with her was taken,'' the suit says.
The thefts often took place as deportees were loaded onto trains or at holding camps, such as Drancy, that France operated, according to the suit. The Nazis took control of Drancy in July 1943, the suit says.
``SNCF assembled and ran the trains,'' the complaint says. Caisse des Depots ``accepted, held, and is holding today property consisting of money taken from the plaintiffs.''
The case is the third against a French business by Holocaust victims, said Harriet Tamen, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. The first, against French banks accused of freezing Jewish accounts, led to the establishment in 2000 of two settlement funds with assets totaling more than $70 million.
`Taking of Property'
The second, accusing SNCF of war crimes, was dismissed after a U.S. court said the government railway had immunity from such claims. That court said lawsuits like this one, alleging the ``taking of property,'' are allowed, according to Tamen.
She couldn't offer an estimate of the damages being sought. ``We have no idea because so many archives are closed to the public,'' Tamen said.
Set up in 1816 to restore public finances after the Napoleonic wars, Caisse des Depots is a public custodian for tax-exempt savings funds collected mostly by the post office and local savings banks. Caisse des Depots isn't publicly traded.
It's also the largest shareholder in Cie de Saint-Gobain SA, Europe's No. 1 distributor of building materials, and the second- largest in Accor SA, the world's No. 4 hotelier. It owns a stake in Belgian financial services company Dexia SA.
The suit is Freund v. Republic of France, 06-CV-1637, Southern District of New York.
To contact the reporter on this story:
David Glovin in New York federal court at dglovin@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: March 2, 2006 14:44 EST
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