The Statement
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Thank you. I'll do it.
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In 1945, Pierre Brossard
is arrested by the police in Paris...

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...tried as a collaborator,
and sentenced to death.

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A week later he escapes. How?
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After all this time,
it's rather difficult to tell.

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No, it isn't. He escapes
because they let him.

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Then they covered their tracks.
That's what they've all been doing.

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I'm the third examining
magistrate appointed.

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That's only because of this new law.
Crimes against humanity.

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You've heard about this Jewish
group that's looking for Brossard?

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No.
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Oh, somebody's been using
police wavebands illegally.

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You know we monitor them.
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Seems there's this Jewish commando
plotting to assassinate Brossard.

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- Why wasn't I told this earlier?
- I'm telling you now.

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An abbey was mentioned.
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The Abbey of St. Cros.
Near Castillon.

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I instructed the local police
to make enquiries.

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- But they reported nothing suspicious.
- Nothing suspicious.

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Brossard is a murderer
who gets a presidential pardon.

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How?
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Through the Church.
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- Thank you.
- Thank you.

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The Church may have helped.
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But someone else
was behind the pardon.

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Someone high up...
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...honored...
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...respectable.
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An old man now.
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So?
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So the old man also has a past
that needs to be hidden.

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Someone still alive...
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...was responsible for sending
French Jews to their deaths.

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After the war he slipped through the
net, straight back into government...


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