The World - News from May 30, 1989

French lawyers launched a campaign to have war criminal Paul Touvier tried in the southern city of Lyon, where he was police chief for the collaborationist Vichy regime in World War II. The lawyers asked France’s highest appeals court to transfer Touvier’s trial, currently scheduled for Paris, to the Lyon court where Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was tried in 1987. Barbie was given a life sentence. Touvier, 74, arrested in a priory in Nice last week, has been charged with crimes against humanity. Touvier, working beside Barbie, allegedly ordered and personally carried out executions of French resistance fighters and arranged for French Jews to be deported.