Palais de Justice

Facing the river in old Lyon, the grandiose neo-classical Palais de Justice is well worth a gander.

It was here that Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo head of Lyon during WWII, was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in 1987.

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