Maurice Gabolde

Maurice Gabolde (1891-1972) was Minister of Justice during the Régime of Vichy.

He is amputee of a leg during the First World War.

After having been public prosecutor in Chambéry, it is transferred in 1940 to the supreme court of justice of Riom.

From January 1941, he is prosecutor of the State in Paris. For this reason it is implied in the law of exception wanted by Pierre Pucheu at the time of the assassination of the candidate Alfons Moser by Pierre Georges. It is indeed him which writes article 10 of the Loi of August 14th, 1941 repressing the communist or anarchistic activity:

the public action in front of the seized jurisdiction is prescribed by ten years from the perpetration of the facts, even if those are former to the promulgation of this law. All jurisdictions of instruction or judgment are full dispossessions with regard to these facts with the profit of the qualified special section which will know moreover oppositions made to the judgments of defect and the stops of contumacy.

This law creates sections special in each Court of Appeal, charged to pronounce, without possibility of recourse, of the capital punishments against the Communists and to the anarchists. Article 10 gives him a retroactive effect, which means that it relates to also acts made before its promulgation.

From March 26th, 1943 to August 17th, 1944, it becomes Minister of Justice of the government Laval. It accompanies then the “government in exile by Sigmaringen”, before fleeing in Spain in 1945.

He is condemned to death in absentia by the high court of justice of Paris on March 13rd, 1946.

He fixes himself at Spain or he becomes French professor. He dies in 1972.

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