TOULOUSE, France, June 7 (UPI) -- France and the country's national railroad company have been ordered to pay a symbolic $80,000 to the family of Jews shipped to their deaths in the Holocaust.
The court in Toulouse ruled in favor of French European Parliament Member Alain Lipietz, whose father and uncle were taken by train to the Drancy concentration camp north of Paris, where they died in 1941.
The court in Toulouse ruled the national railroad "never objected nor protested against carrying out these transports," and said the state was guilty of turning a blind eye to the forced transit, Israel's Arutz Sheva newspaper reported Wednesday.
An estimated 75,000 French Jews died in Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe during World War II, the newspaper said.
