Facing Justice. Jews and French Police in the aftermath of Holocaust

I would like to address the issue of Jews and Justice in the aftermath of WWII in France. During the Vichy regime, besides round-ups, Jews were mainly arrested and sent to the Drancy internment camp by French policemen, not by Nazis. Some of them belonged to special anti-Jews groups, others were regular police forces. What happened to these officers after the war? How Jewish victims and policemen faced justice ? I strongly believe that it is not relevant to insist on what Jews did say or not to non-Jews about persecution (the current controversy about the “silence of Jewish survivors” versus “the society did not listen to them”), if we don’t pay attention first to the way Jews had been legally treated as victims in France. My current research in the justice files allows me to confront French police officers` arguments in 1945 with the persecution undergone by their victims with archival means that investigators did not have at the time. It highlights the lack of justice towards Jews in France: almost none of these policemen was condemned for what they did to the Jews. Surprisingly enough, these cases were often heard by the same judges as under the Vichy regime. Many of them convicted Jews for violation of French anti-Jews legislation, but no one had to face any punishment after 1945 : court rulings towards the Jews had been excluded from the “legal purge” of judges. What consequences can be drawn from this for the reintegration of Jews into French society?