No Comment. I came across this passage in my reading today:
"The blind hatred that the Milice excited in the breasts of the resistants led to terrible reprisals, some of which the Resistance later wished to forget. Shooting down a milicien or blowing up one of their recruiting offices was a patriotic act...The hated and greatly feared Milice chief in Voiron (near Grenoble) was one Jourdan. Fearful for his life, he was constantly surrounded by bodyguards and his home patrolled by armed miliciens day and night. Determined to strike a patriotic blow by killing him, four students--aged eighteen and ninceteen--enrolled in the Milice and quickly gained Jordan's confidence. On the night of April 20, 1944, the students approached Jourdan's house while he was being protected only by two members of the Milice. While two of the students watched the outside of the house, the other two entered, quickly pulled submachine guns from under their coats, and shot down Jourdan and his two guards. Then--and this was the unforgivable crime--they killed his wife, his eighty-two-year-old mother, his ten-year-old son, and his daughter, aged fifteen months." From Milton Dank, The French Against the French: Collaboration and Resistance, NY: J.B. Lippincott, 1974, p. 257.