Count Ladislas de Hoyos (''Ladislaus Alfons Konstantin Heinrich Johannes de Hoyos''; ) born into the Austro-Hungarian Counts de Hoyos family (27 March 1939 – 8 December 2011) was a French TV journalist and politician. He was

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broadcaster for TF1's and investigation journalist. In 1972, in Bolivia, he unmasked with nazi's hunters

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the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie who was hiding in this country under the false identity of Klaus Altmann. He covered in 1987 the trial of Barbie in

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and wrote a book about it. In 1991, Ladislas de Hoyos left the 8 PM news program of TF1. He was replaced by the French journalist

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. In 1997, he worked at Radio France Inter to produce the history magazine The Days of the Century. In 2001 he was elected mayor of Seignosse, Landes, position he held until his death. In July 2006, he was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. In 1975, he married Corinne Meilhan-Bordes, air hostess at

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with whom he had two daughters, Amelie and Charlotte. In 1991 he met Magali Fernández-Salazar, young Neuroscientist, Philosopher and former Journalist at

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, with whom he began a relationship that lasted until the end of his life. He died on 8 December 2011 in Seignosse, where he is buried.

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