'It is the role of justice to deal with this man': How the trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie shook the world In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported on how France felt about this reckoning with its dark past.

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