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French railways win appeal against WWII deportees

A French court has overturned a ruling that ordered the state railway to compensate the family of World War II Jewish deportees.

Appeal judges in Bordeaux ruled administrative courts could not decide the liability of the operator SNCF.

Last June a court ruled SNCF must pay 61,000 euros ($81,300; £41,400) to the Lipietz family, whose members were taken to a camp near Paris in 1944...

The Lipietz family said it would now go to the highest administrative court, the State Council.

Other plaintiffs will have to go to criminal or civil courts, legal experts say.

However, a similar case in 2003 against SNCF in a civil court was thrown out as the 30-year statute of limitations had expired.

Between 1942 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France.
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