- FILE PHOTO 23OCT91 - The trial of accused wartime French collaborator Maurice Papon, seen in this October 23, 1991 file photo during a press conference, opens on October 8, is to hear 115 witnesses, and is expected to last until December 23, justice authorities told lawyers, September 23. Papon, now 87, is accused of ordering the deportation of more than 1,500 Jews to Nazi death camps during World War Two while a senior offical in Bordeaux of the Vichy collaborationist regime.