Jean Paul Robert Filiol (9 May 1909 – date of death unknown) was a French militant, who was active in ''

La Cagoule (, "The Cowl"; founded in 1936) was a French fascist-leaning and anti-communist militant group. It opposed the left-wing Popular Front (in office, June 1936 to 1938) and used violence to promote its activities in the final years of the Thi ...

'' before the Second World War. After the war, he fled to

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, where he worked for the local office of

L'Oréal L'Oréal S.A. () is a French multinational personal care corporation registered in Paris

. Filliol was one of the founding members of ''La Cagoule'', after being previously a member of the ''

Camelots du Roi The King's Camelots, officially the National Federation of the King's Camelots () was a far-right youth organization of the French militant royalist and integralist movement Action Française active from 1908 to 1936. It is best known for taking ...

''. He was one of suspects in the killing of the Italian anti-fascists

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and

Nello Rosselli Sabatino Enrico 'Nello' Rosselli (29 November 1900 – 9 June 1937) was an Italian Socialist leader and historian. Biography Rosselli was born on 29 June 1900, in Rome, to a prominent Jewish family. His parents were Giuseppe Emanuele "Joe" Rossel ...

in 1937, for which a French court sentenced him to death ''in absentia'' in 1948. Filliol was interned in 1942, but released in 1944, on the orders of

Joseph Darnand Joseph Darnand (19 March 1897 – 10 October 1945) was a French far-right political figure, Nazi collaborator and convicted war criminal during the Second World War. A decorated veteran of the First World War and the Battle of France in 1940, h ...

. He fled to

after the war, which refused to extradite him to stand trial in

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