Tensions reached a fever pitch when Reynaud, reading from a document purportedly showing that one of Ho Chi Minh’s representatives in Paris, Duong Bach Mai, was responsible for atrocities committed against Frenchmen in Indochina, was told by a deputy that this man was present in the public gallery at that very moment. Amid cries of “This is the criminal!” and “Arrest him!” the session had to be suspended. Duong Bach Mai was soon detained and deported to Vietnam.
