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Last week Barbie, 69, was back in Lyon, locked away in Montluc, the prison where he tortured and jailed thousands. The full details of his heinous past and his flight from justice have yet to be told, but when he is brought to trial a third time, a Pandora's box of incriminating evidence against a number of French collaborators may be opened. The trial could even provide embarrassing details of a U.S. scheme to enlist the former Gestapo officer as an intelligence source after World...
Word of Barbie's expulsion from Bolivia stunned France. BARBIE: THE GHOSTS RETURN, read the headline of Le Quotidien de Paris. An equally macabre banner was printed by Le Figaro: THE DEVILS EXHUMED. Even before Barbie's arrival in Lyon, relatives of some of his victims began to gather in front of the heavy green wooden doors of Montluc in silent vigil. "I just want to get a look at his face," said a woman who survived Dachau. In the end, there was nothing to see. Closely guarded by French security agents, the prisoner flashed I past...
...loan from the state. Barbie immediately repaid the debt, plus interest, but it did him little good. Instead of releasing him, Bolivian officials put him on a plane bound for Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana. When told he had been handed over to French authorities, the Butcher of Lyon made a gesture, as if slitting his throat...
...tracking down Nazi criminals. When a Munich court tried to close the Barbie case in 1971, Beate Klarsfeld launched an international protest campaign that eventually turned up information on the missing SS man's whereabouts in Latin America. Largely on the basis of new evidence from the Klarsfelds, Lyon Magistrate Christian Riss decided to reopen the Barbie dossier in February 1982. This was necessary because his 1947 and 1954 convictions had lapsed as a result of France's 20-year statute of limitations on war crimes. Last November, Riss officially indicted the one time Gestapo captain for "crimes...
...begins next year. Because of the statute of limitations much of the evidence presented previously will be inadmissible this time in court. But prosecutors have compiled a full dossier for his new trial. He will probably be charged with rounding up and shooting railway employees in Oullins, outside of Lyon, and organizing a police raid in which 86 Jews were arrested. The most poignant case against him centers on the deportation of 41 Jewish orphans, aged 3 to 13, from the village of Izieux to the Auschwitz death camp. If convicted, however, Barbie will escape the guillotine, since France abolished...