Word: touvier
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DIED. PAUL TOUVIER, 81, former French pro-Nazi militia chief and the only Frenchman convicted of World War II crimes against humanity; in a prison near Paris...
...Paul Touvier, the first Frenchman to be tried for crimes against humanity, went on trial in Versailles. Touvier, who served as intelligence chief for a pro-Nazi militia during World War II, stands accused of ordering the execution of seven Jews in a Lyons suburb...
Prosecutors may have a better chance of convicting Paul Touvier, now 78, a Nazi collaborator during the German Occupation of France who was 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...