Jean Leguay
Jean Leguay (29 November 1909 — 5 July 1989) was a high-ranking French civil servant complicit in the deportation of Jews from France.
During the Vichy regime, Leguay was second-in-command to René Bousquet, general secretary of the National police in Paris. After the war he became president of Warner Lambert, Inc. from London (now merged with Pfizer), and later president of Substantia Laboratories in Paris.
In 1979 Leguay was charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the organisation of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv), the mass arrest of more than 13,000 Jews which took place on 16 and 17 July 1942 in Paris.
Leguay died in 1989 without having been tried. However, in a statement unprecedented in the history of French justice, the judiciary officially stated after his death that his involvement in crimes against humanity was ascertained beyond any doubt.
