Another French Failure (smuggled out of Vicky's place)
Go ahead and file this one under "They just don't get it, do they?"
PARIS (AP) - A court ruled that too much time had elapsed for a French Jew to try to collect a symbolic $1.14 reparation from the state-run railway for assisting in the deportation of his parents to World War II death camps.The court threw out the suit brought by 82-year-old Kurt Schaechter on the grounds that there is a 30-year limit for collecting indemnities.
The judicial clock began ticking "at the date of the tragic death of his parents, therefore only several days after their transport was carried out, in conditions void of all humanity, in freight trains or animal cars belonging to the National Society of French Railroads,'' the court ruling reads....
Schaechter filed the suit in March as a "duty of memory,'' saying he wanted the railroad to take responsibility for its role in the Nazi-ordered deportation of Jews to death camps. He sought one euro - $1.14 - plus interest.
This wasn't even about the money, and yet Schaechter cannot secure justice from the French legal system. Yep, denial is more than a river in Egypt- it runs straight through the center of Paris.
