He called the “Butcher Lyon” for his war torture of prisoners, the former chief of Gestap in the occupied French city fled to South America after the end of the Second World War.
Barbie was at the end arrested After following the most famous pair of Nazi Nazi hunt, Serge Klarsfeld and his wife beat, The BBC reported. He was extradited from Bolivia to France in 1983. years and sentenced to life prison in 1987. on charges for crimes against humanity.
Barbie died in prison in 1991. years.
According to Der Spiegel, Barbie – lives under Puser Klaus Altmann – became a drug safety advisor Baron Roberto Suarez after the two men met in the 1970s.
Suarez’s son Gary told the magazine that Barbie was “an important person to my father”.
“He knew something about safety, military strategy and a secret job,” he said.
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Barbie was also active in the consultation of the Bolivian security services, helping to set the mortal composition for the dictator Luis Garcia Meza.
Gary Suarez told Der Spiegel that “Barbie was deeply involved in military regimes that return to decades.”
“Death of the death”
Barbie helped “organize militias that would overthrow the government” in the lower leg to the 1980 violent coup. The year that Garcia Meza brought him to power.
Among them was a group of neo-Nazi mercenaries called “Youth of Death”, which was headquartered by the Headquarters of Swastika-lining called the Bavaria Club in the city of Santa Cruz.
After the croups that were arranged to help both sympathy of political opposition and Suarzovi rivals in cocaine production.
A DISPECTER CIA Since May 1974. The years seen by Der Spiegel reveals that the agency’s officials were suspected that the drug trafficked in the drug trafficking, said the magazine.
Pot-Lawyer Roberto Suarez Gerardo Caballero said Der Spiegel that “Barbie helped us a lot, including in work together with Pablo Escobar” Colombian Drugs Kingpin.
Barbie recruited as an anti-communist agent to American secret services after the war, and the United States later apologized to France for helping Barbie avoid justice.
Der Spiegel previously reported that Barbie was active as a secret agent for West German intelligence in Bolivia.
The magazine said he was recruited in the late 1965. In Bolivian capital La Paz, with regard to the code name “Adler”.
Jacques Vergés, a French lawyer representing Barbie, He asked “60 minutes” In 2004, in order to represent one of the most powerful war criminals in the world.
“You must have hated what he represented,” said the correspondent Morley Safer.
“I’m unable to hate,” Vergés answered.
“Even the worst monster that you are unable to hate?” Asked safer.
“No. I wonder I understand,” Vergés answered. “I’m condemn, but I don’t hate.”
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