Criminals
For collaboration with Nazi Germany see also the politicians section.
- Jacques de Bernonville (1897–1972), war criminal sentenced to death
- Jules Bonnot
- Émile Louis
- Henri Désiré Landru, serial killer
- Jacques Mesrine
- Zacarias Moussaoui
- Maurice Papon, politician and war criminal
- Marcel Petiot, serial killer
- Gilles de Rais, prolific serial killer
- Jean-Claude Romand, murderer
- Albert Spaggiari
- Charles Sobhraj, killer
- Paul Touvier, one of only two Frenchmen to be convicted of crimes against humanity
Read more about this topic: List Of French People
Famous quotes containing the word criminals:
“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:42.
One of the criminals crucified with Jesus.
“How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.”
—Henry George (1839–1897)
“Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)