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Bomb attempt at home of Klarsfeld
By JACK MAURICE Jerusalem Post Correspondent PARIS. — The husband of Beate Klarsfeld, the young German-born housewife who tracked down Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to his South American hide-out recently, narrowly escaped an attempt to kill his wife and himself with a bomb hidden in a parcel on Wednesday. Mr. Serge Klarsfeld found the parcel at the couple's home here when he returned from his job at the United 'Israel Appeal office. His suspicions were aroused when he noticed that, although It had been posted In Paris, the package bore a provincial address and the name "Samuel Segal." Mr. Klarsfeld took the parcel to the nearest police station and traffic was cleared from the neighbourhood for 20 minutes while bomb disposal experts opened it and rendered it harmless. Inside, the police found a powerful charge of explosive mixed with a quantity of nails. The detonator was of a highly advanced deelgn and It was obvious that the bomb was -the work of an expert. Mrs. Klarsfeld Is at present away in the south of France and it was her mother-in-law who took delivery of the parcel from a postman. |
