According to police, the lib ration actress Paris ... and try Vel'd'Hiv "

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Paris police during the uprising anniversary of the liberation of Paris, 70, hides his sinister role in the occupation of attending a raid Vel'd'Hiv.

16 and 17 July 1942, to stop French police at the request of the Germans, the Jews, 13,000 in the capital. Black side today, "who is trying to cope," said a police spokesman.

However, the main task of the police is not to be denied in the liberation of Paris. August 19, 1944, the day after the meeting of the three resistance movements to the police, around 3,000 policemen in civil strike for four days before the barracks in the city at 6:00 clock.

You invest a scene after negotiating with riot police who occupy the prefecture on August 15, kidnapped the police chief and hoist the French flag.

"Police, at all speeds, including the Committee for the Liberation of Paris, you have to adapt to it," says Jean-Marc Berlière historian, author of "The French police profession".

Within a week of fierce fighting against the Germans killed 167 policemen in the capital. A in the Prefecture of Police (PP) has been named the "Room 167" in his memory.

This event is held every year in memory of the work "as a screen memory, a way of knowing, without Vel'd'Hiv evidence," said Jean-Marc Berlière.

- Police memory schizophrenia -

Signed peace agreement in 1940 obliged the French police to enforce the orders of the occupying power. Police Vichy government is armed Germans.

When the Germans ordered registration of Jews, load Vichy police shot blocked. PP file precision is Jewish, "the Germans admire," he says.

However, it is not clear during the raid of the Velodrome d'Hiver, a number of prisoners under the expectations of the Germans ", which provides for 22,000," said the historian. The police are not allowed to perform an amount of leak.