The World - News from May 26, 1987
Former Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie may be forced to return to his trial in Lyon, France, today, bringing an end to his boycott of the proceedings, judicial sources said. They said presiding Judge Andre Cerdini is likely to order the move to enable survivors of the Nazi Holocaust to identify him in person. Barbie, a senior Gestapo officer in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, walked out of the trial on May 13, saying he was kidnaped from Bolivia four years ago and was being held illegally in France. Barbie is being tried on a charge of crimes against humanity.
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