The World - News from Jan. 6, 1985
Only three of eight charges filed against accused Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie have been retained against the former Gestapo chief of Lyon, France, from 1942 to 1944, legal sources reported. Five of the charges against Barbie, known as the “Butcher of Lyon,” have been dropped because of a lack of surviving evidence and witnesses. The remaining charges against Barbie, who was jailed in Lyon following his extradition from Bolivia in 1983, cover three incidents that resulted in the death or deportation of 777 people, mostly Jews.
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