The World - News from July 1, 1987

Klaus Barbie’s crimes as Nazi Gestapo chief in Lyon, France, during World War II were “particularly inhumane” and deserve the maximum sentence of life in prison, prosecutor Pierre Truche said at the end of his two-day summation at Barbie’s trial in the French city. Truche told the three judges and nine jurors that Barbie should be convicted of crimes against humanity for the hundreds of deportations of Jews and French Resistance members cited at the trial, some of whom were also tortured. France has no death penalty. Barbie’s defense lawyers were to begin their final pleadings today, with a verdict in the trial expected Friday.