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...foreign convicts to be deported once they'd served a jail sentence, which amounted to a form of double jeopardy. "If it wasn't for Sarkozy, it wouldn't have happened," says Bernard Bolze, a prisoners' rights advocate otherwise deeply critical of Sarkozy's hard line on crime. Arno Klarsfeld, a lawyer who worked for him when he was Interior Minister, says Sarkozy also faced down Ministry advisers who opposed his policy allowing some illegal immigrants to stay in France if their children were in school. "The Socialists never made a moral ruling about immigration; they were fuzzy," says Klarsfeld...
...those who live in Germany argue that they have a right, even a duty, to remain. ``If all of us fled Germany,'' says Shlomit Tulgan, a student in Berlin, ``then Hitler would have achieved his desire of making Germany free of Jews. We can't let that happen.'' Serge Klarsfeld, the French Nazi hunter, believes the Jews belong in Eastern Europe despite the Holocaust. ``To live in Cracow, in Prague or in Budapest is not to live with assassins. It is to live with the memory of Jewish life that once flourished there...
...recently indicted for "crimes against humanity" in connection with the murder of seven Jewish hostages taken by the Gestapo in Lyons in 1944. French authorities are expected to decide in the next six months whether to try Touvier. "After 20 years of stalling in the courts," said Serge Klarsfeld, the renowned Nazi hunter, "Touvier will have to answer for his crimes in a criminal court." Antanas Gecas, 77, a onetime Lithuanian auxiliary-police battalion officer now living -- quite openly -- in Edinburgh, Scotland, is similarly awaiting a decision by the British government about whether to prosecute him for his alleged participation...
...Barbie justify what was done to the children of Izieu? Here, the proofs of his crimes are beyond dispute: the Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the best known of his pursuers, have turned up a striking document: "This morning, the Jewish children's home, 'Children's Colony,' at Izieu has been removed. 41 children in all, aged 3 to 13, have been captured. Beyond that, the arrest of all the Jewish personnel has taken place, namely 10 individuals, among them 5 women. It was not possible to secure any money or other valuables. Transportation to Drancy will take place...
This trial represents an extraordinary victory for Beate Klarsfeld, who, as it happens, was born and raised in Germany. A victory over the forgetfulness, the willingness to compromise, the indifference that an overly politicized world has shown for too long toward escaped SS killers. A victory too over the governments that helped Barbie. It was the Klarsfelds who picked up his trail -- he had disappeared for almost 40 years into the identity of a prosperous and peaceful businessman named Klaus Altmann living in Bolivia. They were the ones who managed to persuade Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government...