Video: 'Former Prime Minister of France, Pierre Laval, is executed for treason, Paris, Fr...HD Stock Footage'

(Monday, October 15, 1945, 12:31 p.m. Central European Time; after World War II) — The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval was shot today (after a thwarted suicide attempt) in Fresnes (in the southern suburbs of Paris) by a firing squad for treason.

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