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Touvier demand

Friday 22 April 1994 00:02 BST
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Paul Touvier's lawyer demanded a retrial for his client, the Nazi collaborator convicted of the murders of seven Jewish hostages during the Second World War, AP reports from Paris. Supporting arguments will be filed later. Touvier, 79, a high-ranking member of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime's militia, became the first Frenchman convicted of complicity in crimes against humanity.

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