 He was, with the other Resistance leaders, sent to Montluc Prison in Lyon in which he was detained until the beginning of July.Tortured extensively on a daily basis in Lyon by Klaus Barbie, the head of the Gestapo there, and later more briefly in Paris, Moulin never revealed anything to his captors.According to witnesses, Moulin and his men had their fingernails removed using hot needles as spatulas.