Ladislas de Hoyos

Ladislas de Hoyos
Born 27 March 1939(1939-03-27)
Bruxelles, Belgium
Died 8 December 2011(2011-12-08) (aged 72)
Seignosse, France
Occupation Journalist, politician

Ladislas de Hoyos (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 was detained 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 [1] and wrote a book about him.

He was elected as mayor of Seignosse in 2001 and was reelected in 2008.[2] de Hoyos died in office as mayor of Seignosse.

References

  1. ^ lefigaro.fr. "Le Figaro - Flash Actu : TV: Ladislas de Hoyos est mort". Lefigaro.fr. http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/12/08/97001-20111208FILWWW00753-tv-ladislas-de-hoyos-est-mort.php. Retrieved 2011-12-09. 
  2. ^ "Mort de l’ancien journaliste de TF1 Ladislas de Hoyos - Voici" (in (French)). Voici.fr. http://www.voici.fr/news-people/actu-people/mort-de-l-ancien-journaliste-de-tf1-ladislas-de-hoyos-433750/#xtor=RSS-4. Retrieved 2011-12-09.