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REOPENING
THE BARBIE CASE
All the international press associations, all
the big French and German news syndicates, received the material we had
gathered about Barbie. We also distributed it to all the Resistance
associations in the Lyon area and to the legal authorities in France and
Germany.
The French reaction would have to come from Lyon to have the
greatest effect on German opinion. If no vigorous protests against the Munich
prosecutor's decision came from the place where Barbie had committed his
crimes, the Germans would undoubtedly think the people of Lyon shared Rabl's
opinion. I had an idea in mind: The people of Lyon should stage a demonstration
in Munich.
The first thing to be done was to alert the Lyon press. On
July 27 I went to the Paris office of the Lyon Progrès and told
reporter André Severac about the various aspects of the case. The next
day Progrès carried a long story headed: "German Prosecutor Drops
Charges against Klaus Barbie, Chief of Lyon Gestapo and Torturer of Jean
Moulin."
On July 29 Progrès gave a great deal of space to
the reaction. The Lyon branch of the LICA asked "all Resistance associations
and all citizens of Lyon with a sense of justice to write a letter of protest
to the prosecutor."
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