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...living in Bolivia under the name Klaus Altmann (TIME, Feb. 14). Pompidou has been publicly and energetically demanding Altmann's extradition to France. Now the weekly L'Express has revealed that Pompidou, against the advice of his Minister of Justice, last November secretly granted a full pardon to another Lyon war criminal, a Frenchman named Paul Touvier...
...monasteries and convents for 20 years, until the statute of limitations on his crimes expired in 1967. Touvier had a powerful protector in Monsignor Charles Duquaire, a French prelate with influence in both Paris and the Vatican. Duquaire waged a ten-year campaign to gain Touvier a full presidential pardon, which General Charles...
...Pompidou on his behalf. "He gave me a sweetened-up version of his activities during the Occupation, and I was weak enough to believe him," Marcel explains today. When he learned the truth about Touvier, Marcel asked Pompidou to return his letter. "There are crimes that only God can pardon," Marcel now says...
...Pompidou was persuaded to grant Touvier a presidential pardon, which allowed him to return to his home on Chemin des Charmettes in Chambery, near Lyon, and to regain possession of his confiscated property-much of it booty plundered or extorted from wealthy Jews during...
Touvier's pardon has especially infuriated veterans of the Resistance movement. The French League against Racism and Anti-Semitism has warned: "In no case will we permit Touvier to walk freely around the streets of Lyon." Touvier obviously takes these threats seriously: he is staying out of sight. Commenting on Touvier's pardon and the memoirs of a Gestapo agent in France, written by Barbie, purchased for $36,000 and published by France-Soir, Resistance Hero Marcel Riviere remarked: "The hangmen of Lyon are prospering this year, aren't they...