Release , May 28, 1987

One of the newspaper Le Monde announces the expulsion of Klaus Barbie (6-7 February 1983). The design of Plantu Klaus Barbie is off the plane: the deportees in striped suit and a big Jean Moulin await at the foot of the bridge.

One of the newspaper Libération of February 7, 1983

The World of May 12, 1987 announced the opening the day before the trial of Klaus Barbie.

The defense of Master Vergés and Master Bouaïta based on the idea that all crimes against humanity were not punished equally, and in particular the crimes of colonialism.

Klaus Barbie died in prison 25 September 1991

An official of the Nazi Party Barbie joined the SD (intelligence) of the SS 26 September 1935 in Trier. He joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) on 1 May 1937. It's a party official. In 1940, he organized raids in Amsterdam. At the end of the grip of the German police in France by Oberg end of May 1942, Obersturmfuehrer Klaus Barbie was appointed head of the Kommando Gex French-Swiss border, in charge of intelligence. The "Butcher of Lyon " After the invasion of the South Zone, Nov. 11, 1942, he was a lieutenant, and was appointed head of Section IV of the Sipo SD Lyons, special section responsible for research, law enforcement and the fight against the resistance, until September 1944. He soon acquired the nickname "Butcher of Lyon" for his ferocity during interrogation. He leads the arrest of Jean Moulin and seven other leaders of the secret army June 21, 1943 in Caluire. On 23 June, having identified Moulin, Barbie and his men fall upon "Max", he salutes the courage. He was ordered to transfer it to Paris in early July. Until the middle of next summer, Barbie leads a fight against the resistance no thank you Lyon, refractories and Jews. On April 6, 1944, 44 children aged three to thirteen are rounded up to the house of Izieu, transferred to Drancy, to Auschwitz where they will be exterminated. On August 11 he sent into exile Lyonnais 650 including 200 Jews. During the summer of 1944, a reign of terror throughout the Lyon region, command performances, like those of Saint-Genis-Laval and Rillieux-la-Pape. The sad record is assigned according to the only region of Lyon: 10 000 1 046 arrests 6000 shot dead or missing. Promoted to captain, he left Lyon on August 27. Protected by the Americans Sentenced to death in absentia in May 1947 and November 1954, Barbie is recovered after the war by the American special services. He worked until 1951 at the "network Genlen" Intelligence Service of the FRG in charge of espionage against the Eastern countries. He was then director of the Trans Maritima Bolivia in Bolivia. Found in Bolivia Beate Klarsfeld establishes the relationship between Barbie and Altmann, confirmed the interview with Ladislas de Hoyos for the second channel 4 February 1972.President Pompidou asked Bolivian authorities for his extradition, saying: "Time erases a lot of things but not everything." Barbie was extradited February 7, 1983. His trial opened in Lyon in 1987, Jacques Verges to defend himself. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and died September 28, 1991.

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