The infamous criminal of the Nazi war helped establish the best drug sign and worked with Pablo Escobar, according to the report

The Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was deeply involved in the creation of one of the most important drug cartels in South America, according to a report on Friday by the German news weekly Der Spiegel.

Nicknamed the “Lyon butcher” for his torture of prisoners in times of war, the former head of Gestapo in the French city occupied fled to South America after the end of World War II.

Barbie was finally arrested after being tracked by the most famous Nazi hunting couple in France, Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate, BBC reported. He was extradited from Bolivia to France in 1983 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for charges of crimes against humanity.

Barbie died in prison in 1991.

According to Der Spiegel, Barbie, who lives under the alias Klaus Altmann, became security advisor to the Baron of the drug Roberto Suárez after the two men met in the 1970s.

Suárez’s son, Gary, told the magazine that Barbie was “an important person for my father.”

“I knew something about security, military strategy and secret service work,” he said.

Barbie was also active in the advice of Bolivian security services, helping to establish a death squad for the dictator Luis García Meza.

Gary Suarez told Der Spiegel that “Barbie had been deeply involved in the military regimes that date back to decades.”

“Boyfriends of death”

Barbie had helped “organize the militias that would overthrow the government” in the period prior to the violent coup d’etat of 1980 that led García Meza to power.

Among them there was a group of neo -Nazis mercenaries called “Bridegrooms of Death” that were headed by the swastika called Club Bavaria in the city of Santa Cruz.

After the coup d’etat, they deployed to help both to crush the political opposition and to Suárez’s rivals in the production of cocaine.

TO CIA shipping Since May 1974, seen by Der Spiegel, he reveals that the agency’s officers already suspected Barbie of participation in drug trafficking, said the magazine.

Roberto Suárez’s son -in Click of Colombian drugs.

Barbie was recruited as an anti -communist agent for American Secret Services after the war, and the United States then apologized to France for helping Barbie evade justice.

Der Spiegel has previously reported that Barbie was also active as a secret agent for the intelligence of West Germany in Bolivia.

The magazine said he was recruited at the end of 1965 in the Bolivian capital La Paz and gave him the name “Adler” (“Eagle”).

Jacques Vergés, a French lawyer who represented Barbie, He was asked about “60 minutes” In 2004, how could one of the most vile war criminals represent the world.

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

“I can’t hate,” Vergés replied.

“Even the worst monster you can’t hate?” He asked safer.

“No. I am curious to understand,” Vergés replied. “I’m condemning, but I don’t hate.”

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