Count Ladislas de Hoyos (Ladislaus Alfons Konstantin Heinrich Johannes de Hoyos; ) born into the Austro-Hungarian Counts de Hoyos family (March 27, 1939 – December 8, 2011) was a French TV journalist and politician. He was news broadcaster for TF1's and is known to have been the first journalist to interview in 1972 the former Gestapo member Klaus Barbie who lived in Bolivia. Barbie lived under the alias of Klaus Altmann and De Hoyos managed with Beate Klarsfeld to discover where the war criminal was hidden. De Hoyos covered in 1987 the trial of Barbie in Lyon and wrote a book about him.
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27 March 1939 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Died |
8 December 2011 (aged 72) Seignosse, France
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Zodiac | Aries |
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