When Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie goes on trial, the trial will be held in Lyon, the city he terrorized as chief of gestapo during World War II. The Paris Court of Appeals made that official in an announcement. Barbie, who was ousted from Bolivia on February 5, 1983 and taken into custody by French authorities, may go on trial early next year. But no date has been set.
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