Riom trial
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Riom trial, held by the
Vichy authorities in the French town of Riom in February 1942 of those alleged to be responsible for the
fall of France in June 1940. They were Léon Blum, the prime minister of the Popular Front government during the 1930s;
Edouard Daladier, who was prime minister from April 1938 to March 1940; the Allied C-in-C,
General Gamelin; the minister for air, Guy La Chambre, who was held responsible for the inadequacies of the French Air Force (see
France, 6(d)); and another minor minister.
Because the head of the Vichy government,
Marshal Pétain, had been minister of war in 1934 and represented the French military establishment responsible for the disaster, the trial was limited to events after 1935. Pétain, who had already declared the accused guilty, hand-picked the judge, but the accused politicians (except Gamelin, who remained silent) quickly turned the prosecution's case to their own advantage and after two months the trial was abandoned, though none of the defendants was freed.
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