André Cerdini, judge in Klaus Barbie trial, dies at 96

André Cerdini, the French magistrate who presided over the historic Klaus Barbie trial in July 1987, has died at age 96.

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This trial was landmark for French justice in prosecuting a Nazi war criminal for crimes against humanity.

Cerdini's death deprives France of an emblematic figure of post-war justice.

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