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Trial of Barbie postponed
by French Supreme Court
by Edwin Eytan
PARIS (JTA)—The Supreme
Court has postponed the trial of
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie
which had been scheduled to open
Feb. 3. France’s highest court
announced the postponement of
the trial after it overturned a lower
court decision and after it ruled
that the 73-year-old former Gestapo
officer could be charged with crimes
against French resistance fighters as
well as crimes against Jewish civilians
whom he ordered deported to death
camps.
Legal experts said that the trial
could begin next March or April,
at the earliest, after the upcoming
legislative elections.
Although the postponement is
not linked to the elections, many
believe that the government wanted
to avoid a possible political scandal
during the pre-election period.
Barbie’s lawyer, Jacques Verges,
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The reli
gious parties made an unscheduled
attempt to bring the “Who is a
Jew” amendment to the Law of
Return before the Knesset for a
vote December 25. They pulled back
when it became apparent the measure
would be defeated—as it has been
twice before in recent years.
In that event, it could not be
reintroduced for six months,
according to Knesset rules. The
Klaus Barbie
has said that he intends to shed
light on the betrayal of France’s
wartime resistance leader, Jean
Moulin, to the Nazis. Verges has
implied that other resistance leaders
informed the Gestapo of Moulin’s
whereabouts for political reasons.
Some French newspapers predicted
that Barbie will never be put on
trial because of his poor health.
The Nazi war criminal is under
treatment for a variety of illnesses
Orthodox bloc decided at the last
moment to shelve the bill for the
time being. Some religious MKs
and lobbyists for the Lubavitch
Hasidic movement angrily accused
the Labor F’arty leadership of reneging
on a promise to lift party discipline,
allowing Labor MKs to vote as
they pleased.
The religious parties muster only
12 votes in the Knesset but they
believe they can count on religious
and rightwing M Ks in other parties
to support the controversial measure.
at the Montluc Prison in Lyon
where he has been detained since
his expulsion from Bolivia in
February 1983.
The Supreme Court reconsidered
Barbie’s case at the request of a
number of surviving resistance
fighters. Barbie was formally charged
by investigating Magistrate Christian
Riss with crimes against humanity.
A Lyon court confirmed his
indictment, ruling that the arrest,
deportation and repression of the
resistance fell under the definition
of war crimes, which are covered in
France by a statute of limitations.
Under French law. Barbie could
not be tried for such crimes more
than 40 years after he committed
them, the Lyon court maintained.
Now that the Supreme Court
has reversed the lower court, the
file will go back to the Public
Prosecutor’s Office in Paris which
will interrogate Barbie once again
and prepare a new indictment. In
view of the hundreds of thousands
of documents which must be
examined and the intricate legal
procedure this could take months.
Barbie, known as “the butcher
of Lyon,” was sentenced to death
in absentia in 1952 and again in
1954 by French military courts in
Lyon for crimes against resistance
fighters. The death sentence expired
with the statute of limitations.
The Supreme Court ruling was
based on its findings that the lower
court had no jurisdiction to distin
guish between crimes against
humanity and war crimes. The
prosecution, which generally ex
presses the government’s views, had
asked the court to overrule the
lower tribunal.
Religious parties fail in bid
to get ‘Who is a Jew’ vote
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