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Paul Touvier (* 3 April 1915 in Saint Vincent sur Jabron, Alpes de strike Provence; "† 17. July 1996 in Fresnes, Val de Marne) was first from only two Frenchman (the other one was Maurice Papon), who was condemned because of crimes against the humanity.
Touvier originates from a strictly catholic family from Savoyen. With 16 years it left the institution Saint de Sales, in order to become expedition buyer with PLM in Already the eve of the Second World War Touvier verwitwete early. In the 8. North African Infantriedivision participated it in the Second World War, was however with bombardment Thierrys volatile. When it returned 1940 to was occupied this by Italian troops. Since it sympathized with the ideas of the marshal Philippe which boss of the Vichy regime, he joined the fran§aise combattants (dt. French Kriegsveteranenlegion), which was transferred soon thereafter into the Milice and the service d'ordre (dt. order service of the Fremdenlegion). The Milice was a militia of the Vichy regime, itself the pursuit of the own compatriots, kollaborierende with the Nazis, to which partisans of the dedicated. In the Milizschule in Uriage Touviers ability was discovered as a policeman. Fast it ascended, became a boss of the militia in the region, ten were subordinated to which. Soon also the political police was subordinated to it. It arranged Jew pursuit and the repression against the Later Touvier was appointed Klaus Barbie to the point of the secret service with the Milice in under the line of the Gestapochefs by Lyon, cross-examined arrested, directed raids, led the infiltration of the stole the fortune of the Deportierten and became in January 1944 number two of the regional administration of the Vichy regime.
Toward end of the German crew Touvier visited frequently the abbott Vautherin, which had selected the Kollaboration. After the release of France by the allied ones Touvier submerged Trichet in September 1944 and led temporarily the pseudonym "". On 10 September 1946 he was condemned in absence by French the Court of Justice with competence for betrayal in Lyon to death. The same judgement became to 4. March 1947 of the Court of Justice in imposes. 1947 he was arrested in Paris with the attempt of an armed armed robbery on a baker's shop. With cross-examine chatted its friends, among them Vautherine its both death sentences out. Thereupon Touvier was transported to the Exekution to Lyon, could escape however. Over several churches and monasteries it succeeded to it to submerge until its trace lost itself. In August 1947 he married in the secret one, trusted from the prison minister Pierre Duben. The pair got 1948 a girl and 1950 a boy. Into the 1950er years hid itself Touvier under wrong name at the seat of its family in When danger threatened again, it submerged again in different Klostern Savoyens. 1959 it met also Jacques Brel. 1966 fell under the statute of limitations its death sentence after 20 years. On behalf the archbishop of Lyon its lawyers strove around a pardon and/or an abolition of the lifelong prohibition to leave the country and the Konfiskation of its fortune connected with its death sentence. When 1971 president Georges Pompidou it begnadigte, this released a proclamation of the indignation in the public, in particular after to the daylight it came that he had actually robbed most of the fortune stressed by it from deportierten Jews.
On 3 July 1973 a complaint was submitted against Touvier with the court in Lyon because of crimes against the humanity by Georges of glasses. Glasses of accused of Touvier, the instruction for the murder of seven Jewish hostages in Rillieux la Pape in the proximity of Lyons on 29 June 1944 as retaliation for the deadly notice on Philippe Henriot the propaganda Minister of the Vichy regime to have given. After opening to the accusation Touvier disappeared again. Years of legal arguments of its lawyers provided time for it, until on 27 November 1981 a warrant of arrest became to issue against it. Only to 24. May 1989 was found Touvier in its hiding place, to a monastery in Nice. To his arrest right-wing extremist catholic priests came in the office church in the region Lyon him for years had in particular helped to the light. Touvier had identity papers on the name Paul Perthet under the address of the archbishop of Lyon, its hiding places to up to the Pas de Calais (possibly in a Soutane) frequently had changed and was dependent on the financing of right-catholic circles, which "Chevaliers de Notre-Dame" called themselves. This had not escaped the attention of the Gendarmerieoffiziers Jean Louis Recordon. He pursued the trace of the money and received judicial permission for the telephone monitoring, which led in the long run to the seizure Touviers after an adventurous, escape.
Beside the accusation because of murder at seven Jewish citizens Touvier was suspected an important role with the Exekution of the prominent people right activists Victor Basch and his Mrs. as well as the participation to the Deportation other Jewish fellow citizens to have been involved. While the two following years, in which Touvier sat in detention, 20 further accusations became submitted by individuals and combinations against him.
Touvier was set in July 1991 provisionally on free foot. Its process because of complicity with crimes against the humanity began to 17. March 1994. A jury of nine jurors recognized by 20 April on guilty and it to life imprisonment was condemned. Its appointment 1995 was rejected from the court.
On 17 July 1996 Touvier at Prostatakrebs in the detention hospital Fresnes died in close proximity to Paris. Its funeral was celebrated in the church Saint Nicolas you Chardonnet by the priest brother shank pc. Pius Xth by archbishop in Paris.
The novel "The statement "of Brian of moorlands be based draws on the happening. The book was filmed later and published 2003 with Michael Caine in the role of the Pierre Brossard.
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