The World : Barbie in Doctors’ Care

Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, 71, received emergency medical treatment in prison in Lyon, France, after taking medication apparently given him by mistake. He charged that it was an attempt to poison him. Barbie, awaiting trial for crimes against humanity, was being given his daily dose of medicine when the incident occurred. A prison doctor was called in to treat Barbie, who was slightly upset by the unidentified potion but who has fully recovered, prison sources said. The chief prosecutor’s office ordered an inquiry into what it termed “a mistake in handling” the prisoner’s medicine. Barbie is charged in the deaths of nearly 800 French citizens.