Now 79, he was found guilty last month of a crime against humanity as a Vichy police official in 1944, when he ordered a retaliatory execution of seven Jews.

The killings at Babi Yar began with the machine-gun execution of more than 33,000 Ukrainian Jews over 36 hours beginning on Sept. 29, 1941.

Witnesses said he supervised the execution of nearly 200 Jews in the village of Oran on a summer morning in 1941.

The case against Mr. Touvier, who is accused of ordering the execution of seven Jews, is scheduled to be heard in April.

A modest monument commemorates the place of execution of more than 4,000 Jews in Summer 1942.

In 1994, he was convicted of ordering the retaliatory execution of seven Jews at Rillieux-la-Pape.

Paul Touvier was convicted in 1994 of ordering the execution of seven Jews near Lyons; he died in prison last July.

Next week, the court will address the specific charge: that he ordered the execution of seven Jews in a suburb of Lyons on June 29, 1944.

The first drawing is the execution of four Jews who had been soldiers in the Polish army.

Mr. Touvier, who is accused of ordering the execution of seven Jews in 1944, said he took the oath as part of a group.