Source: France 24 [French state media]
“A senior French official said Saturday he would take legal action over comments made following a tribute to Philippe Pétain, France’s wartime head of state convicted of treason after World War II. … The Association to Defend the Memory of Marshal Pétain (ADMP) organised a mass Saturday at the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Verdun, where Pétain won a famous WWI battle in 1916. … After the mass ADMP president Jacques Boncompain told journalists that Pétain had been ‘the first resistant fighter of France.’ Boncompain also said Pétain’s post-war conviction for treason by a High Court of Justice had not been a fair one.” [editor’s note: Why should a difference of opinion over a long-dead politician be a matter for “legal action?” – TLK] (11/15/25)