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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free july 1987 guilty verdict Barbie claims nazi War crimes trial hailed As French learning experience of photos by the associated press France former Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie found it incredible that he was convicted yesterday of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in a defence lawyer the three judges and nine jurors deliberated 6y2 hours after an eight week trial and then found the Man called the Butcher of guilty of deporting hundreds of jews and French Resis Tance members to nazi death Camps during the second world both verdict and sentence had to be approved by at least eight of the 12 judges and who Deli berated together until just after Midnight Friday the precise vote was not its Barbie defence lawyer Nabil Bounita quoted the 73yearold defendant As saying in a Brief meeting before he was taken Back to unemotional Bounita did not elaborate or pass on other remarks from but said the meeting was Short and the death penalty was outlawed in France in the Barbie trial once thought to have the potential to Divide France and open wounds going Back More than 40 years hailed yesterday for reminding the old and teaching the Young about the suffering the nazis inflicted during the second world War occupation of this trial had to take Andre a journalist who was imprisoned by the nazis and who testified at barbies wrote in the Paris newspaper la it was of direct interest to the conscience of which in the silent hundreds of observers in the courtroom burst into applause and cheered when the verdict was an judge Andre Cerdini quickly hushed where hundreds More waited on the the reaction was less when barbies chief Jac ques stepped outside he was jostled and police offi cers Drew Batons and scuffled with demonstrators before verges re entered the building by another he left the courthouse com plex later in a police verges said he would Appeal the Bounita told the associated press that verges was hit on the head but not injured during the Bounita received Anonymous death threats two of them in Telephone Calls yesterday he in very upset by the Atmo sphere there was a terrible he arguing for the defence compared nazi War time crimes to acts by american troops in Vietnam and israelis in sparking outrage among Many Barbie faces another Possi Bly next on new charges of crimes against humanity which Al lege that he deported two men he arrested with French resistance hero Jean Moulin in june before this trial opened May verges said disclosures about the collaboration of Frances Vichy government with nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944 would overshadow the details of barbies the As we All retain an immense shame from the disaster of 1940 and All that Fol verges said in closing arguments nothing new about French collaborators emerged from the attention remained fixed on the succession of poignant accounts by above in his nazi and As an artist portrayed him during trial in witnesses of what they suffered under torture or in nazi Many of the 105 men and women who testified said they were telling things they always considered too painful to even among and were glad their stories would be recorded for we needed this trial and we needed it for the Lionel a Leader of the coordinating committee of Lyon jewish said shortly before the ver in France a lot of Young people dont know about what happened during the last Learned things Lea who testified about her narrow escape from the Roundup at a jewish organizations offices in said the trials educational Benefit was Cru Ive Learned things said who attended nearly every Day of the i under stand better what i the coordinating committee of Lyon jewish groups said the jew ish Community welcomed the sen tence As an act of Justice and Charity toward All those who under French Barbie would have to serve at least 17 years of his life Barbie lived in Bolivia for More than 30 years before being expelled and brought to France in French courts twice convicted him in absent a of War crimes and sentenced him to but the convictions expired under the stat Ute of Barbie became an anticommunist agent in Germany for army intelligence after the and through his american contacts was spirited to Bolivia in 1951 under the name Klaus Butcher of Lyon never lost nazi Pride France Reuter fleeing French Law for More than 40 former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie stubbornly boycotted his trial for crimes against human strengthening claims that he remains a Barbie was expelled from Boli via in february he was re turned to face trial in the South Eastern French City where he served As head of the Gestapo secret police from 1942 to 1944 during the fou year German occupation of he was convicted yesterday of crimes against humanity and Given the maximum sentence of life in the verdict in the two month trial Marks the end of a lifetime of he served hitlers anticommunist services after the second world War and bolivian military but on May the third Day of the the stooped 73 year old said he was a hostage of France and walked out of the courtroom specially built to stage the born in the Bonn suburb of bad Godesberg in Barbie was brought up in the bitterness of Defeated postwar the son of a schoolteacher who died from a first world War injury inflicted by the a devout roman Catholic in his he volunteered to do social work before joining the nazi youth movement at the age of in he joined the Schut Staffel hitlers personal Security corps and nazi inner recruited by the elite is Security the or Barbie was sent first to the Hague and Amsterdam before arriving in Lyon on Lyon was then the capital of the French resistance and a Centre for jews fleeing the Barbie served As head of the ads Infa Mous Section which came to be known As the responsible for political crimes and jewish France put out a warrant for his arrest in but the Man listed by the allies As a wanted War criminal had apparently vanished in the chaos surrounding the collapse of nazi Barbie told the court he was forced to gather intelligence on communist activities in Europe by the postwar counterintelligence whose officers had kidnapped his Young son pending his false papers it was the Agency that provided him with false papers under the name of Klaus Altmann and an escape route to latin America when France in 1951 intensified its search for the Man known As the Butcher of Barbie was condemned to death twice in his absence by French military courts in the Early 1950s for executing people and de porting another but the convictions were annulled in 1974 under a 20year French statute of it was around the same time that nazi Hunter Beate Klarsfeld traced Barbie to la his ties with the military and political masters of Bolivia earned him a further dec Ade of safety from expelled by the newly elected socialist government of Bolivia in 1983 for obtaining nationality under a false Barbie was bundled aboard a plane he believed to be bound for West he was delivered to police in nearby French four years in the Lyon courtroom far from his bolivian re Barbie stood up to read a statement in German i am the victim of a i am a bolivian citizen and if i find myself Here today it is because 1 was illegally he he refused to attend his and his attitude prompted state prosecutor Pierre Truche to Call him Herr Monsieur grandmother Dies for drug offence Kuala Bumpur a prison authorities hanged a 69yearold malaysian grandmother convicted of drug newspapers reported the the new Straits times and other dailies reported that Tan Mer was hanged at pud prison but prison officials contacted by Telephone refused to com Tan was the the oldest person to be hanged for drug trafficking in a when she was sentenced to death last july 30 for trafficking in 55 Grams of morphine May she stared in Shock and since parliament instituted the death penalty for drug trafficking in people have been sentenced to fifty have been hanged while the others Are awaiting appeals or dates for Waldheir returns to Austria after hospitable trip to Jordan Waldheim temporary ban Aqaba a austrian presi Dent Kurt Waldheim flew Home from Jordan ending four Days of rare hospitality for a Man widely ostracized Over allegations he was involved in nazi War King who earlier piloted Waldheim on a helicopter sightseeing drove the austrian Leader to Aqaba unbaked Airport and saw him aboard a Royal jordanian airlines tristan who made no state trips abroad during his first year As ended his isolation last week when he visited the he had been shunned by some governments due to the controversy Over his Waldheim was intelligence officer for a German army unit in the Balkans in the second world War that deported jewish civilians and partisans to nazi death he repeatedly has denied any knowl Edge or involvement in those opera in a Friday briefing for austrian Waldheim said it was just nonsense to claim he was politically isolated because of the Waldheim said he considered his inclusion on a government watch list of undesirable aliens As a temporary the list bars him from entering the United states As a private he told the jordanian news Agency that he soon will pay state visits to Iraq and several North african but gave no jordanian newspaper editorials repeatedly denounced the zionist Campaign against Poland open in Battle against alcohol a aids threat by John Robinson Boston Globe Warsaw Poland has stepped out of the Eastern european Mold by grappling Headon with the country mounting problems of drug Addic alcoholism and the seeming indifference of Many of the nations citizens to the peril of for decades after the Iron curtain fell across Eastern Poland conformed to the pattern of its so vie subjugated neighbors by deny ing the existence of social problems that marxist propaganda said were special afflictions of a decadent but the recent worsening of these ills and the Advent of aids has forced a new frankness among pol ish while its Eastern european neigh Bors continue to deny drug and Alco hol polish officials Are not Only speaking out openly about them but endorsing programs to combat sponsoring government anti drug and disease fighting measures and using the stat controlled Media to generate educational information about their efforts in some of these areas Are As direct As anything you might see in the United according to one embassy offi the polish Effort even appears to have upstaged soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev openness although Gorbachev amazed the world last year when he acknowledged that alcoholism was rampant in the soviet the govern ments efforts to address the Issue have been tepid at whatever drug problems soviet society May be afflicted with have yet to be and the governments initial reaction to the worldwide aids attack was to suggest that the virus was concocted by the pentagons Chemi Cal warfare but polish authorities have taken a More realistic because Young people account for most of the Rise in drug and alcohol abuse and Are at greater risk of the new Campaign is heavily weighted toward Many poles believe the drug and alcoholism problem estimates place the number of alcoholics in Poland at 30 per cent of the population Are directly tied to Poland Stag corrupt and unrewarding drug abuse has become a particular concern because of the increased addiction to a Highto Homegrown heroin that the government cannot or will not Stop polish Farmers from cultivate according to a 1983 Survey by private Between and Young people reported having had some experience with there Are about regu Lar drug users in according to some we have very favourable conditions for drug said an who has studied the problem and is pushing for More government funding of efforts by the roman Catholic Church to reach drug prone there Are Many psychological and social factors for Bie Lewicz including the growth of social crisis a crisis of something that Young people Are very sensitive there is a period of 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