00:00After the German occupation of France, Villarplan quickly became active in the Paris black market,
00:06dealing in stolen goods and extorting Jewish families and gold merchants. In 1940,
00:13he was arrested for possession of stolen property and sentenced to two months in prison.
00:18Soon after his release, Villarplan became involved with the French Guerlain,
00:23a criminal organization created by the German Reich Security Main Office to combat the French
00:28resistance and widely known as the French Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.
00:34Operating from its headquarters at 93 rue Lauriston in Paris, the group carried out arrests,
00:41extortion, and torture on behalf of the occupiers under the leadership of two Parisian gangsters,
00:47Henri Lefont and Pierre Bonny.
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