Hoyos Ladislasde

French TV journalist and politician from the Austro-Hungarian Comte de Hoyos family. He was a news broadcaster for TF1 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. In 1987 de Hoyos covered the trial of Barbie in Lyon and wrote a book about him. He was elected mayor of Seignosse in 2001 and was reelected in 2008. Ladislas de Hoyos died in office as mayor of Seignosse on 8 December 2011 at age 72. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less