Name of Nobel-prize-winning Nazi sympathizer to be removed from Montreal

A street sign for a street named after Alexis Carrel in the community of Riviere des Prairies, in Montreal, Thursday, May 28, 2015.

MONTREAL - The City of Montreal will remove the name of a Nobel Prize-winning doctor from a street and a park because he was an alleged Nazi sympathizer.

Mayor Denis Coderre announced Wednesday that Alexis Carrel's name would be stricken from the Montreal landscape after provincial and local politicians asked it be done.

Carrel, a French surgeon and biologist, won the Nobel Prize in 1912 but became the subject of controversy for his support of eugenics and the Nazi regime.

Coderre's move follows one by elected officials in Gatineau, Que., which removed Carrel's name from a street last year.

Provincial Liberal politician David Birnbaum recently asked for the name to be removed from two other Montreal suburbs.