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Notorious Nazi struggle felony helped arrange high drug cartel and labored with Pablo Escobar, report says

Editorial Board Published May 9, 2025
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Dubbed the “Butcher of Lyon” for his wartime torture of prisoners, the previous Gestapo chief within the occupied French metropolis fled to South America after the tip of World Warfare II.

Barbie was finally arrested after being tracked down by France’s most well-known Nazi-hunting couple, Serge Klarsfeld and his spouse Beate, the BBC reported. He was extradited from Bolivia to France in 1983 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 on fees of crimes in opposition to humanity.

Barbie died in jail in 1991.

In keeping with Der Spiegel, Barbie — residing underneath the alias Klaus Altmann — turned a safety adviser to drug baron Roberto Suarez after the 2 males met within the Nineteen Seventies.

Suarez’s son Gary advised the journal that Barbie was “an important person to my father.”

“He knew something about security, military strategy and secret service work,” he stated.

Klaus Barbie in Bolivie, circa 1970.

Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho by way of Getty Photographs

Barbie was additionally lively in advising the Bolivian safety providers, serving to arrange a demise squad for dictator Luis Garcia Meza.

Gary Suarez advised Der Spiegel that “Barbie had been deeply involved in the military regimes going back decades.”

“Bridegrooms of Death”   

Barbie had helped “organize the militias that would overthrow the government” within the run-up to the violent 1980 coup that introduced Garcia Meza to energy.

Amongst them was a gaggle of neo-Nazi mercenaries known as the “Bridegrooms of Death” who had a swastika-clad headquarters known as Membership Bavaria within the metropolis of Santa Cruz.

After the coup they have been deployed to assist each crush political opposition and Suarez’s rivals in cocaine manufacturing.

A CIA dispatch from Might 1974 seen by Der Spiegel reveals that the company’s officers already suspected Barbie of involvement within the drug commerce, the journal stated.

Roberto Suarez’s son-in-law Gerardo Caballero advised Der Spiegel that “Barbie helped us a lot, including in working together with Pablo Escobar,” the Colombian drug kingpin.

Barbie was recruited as an anti-communist agent by American Secret Providers after the struggle, and the US later apologized to France for serving to Barbie evade justice.

Der Spiegel has beforehand reported that Barbie was additionally lively as a undercover agent for West German intelligence in Bolivia.

The journal stated he was recruited in late 1965 within the Bolivian capital La Paz and given the code identify “Adler” (“Eagle”).

Jacques Vergés, a French lawyer who represented Barbie, was requested by “60 Minutes” in 2004 how he may signify one of many world’s most vile struggle criminals.

“You must have hated what he represented,” correspondent Morley Safer requested.

“I am not able of hating,” Vergés responded.

“Even the worst monster you are not able to hate?” Safer requested.

“No. I am curious to understand,” Vergés replied. “I am condemning, but I am not hating.”

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