Court to deliver verdict on Hungarian WWII criminal Monday

Budapest court will on Monday deliver a verdict to Sandor Kepiro who is accused of crimes in Novi Sad during World War II. Kepiro, 97, is accused of taking part in a fascist raid in 1942 as a Hungarian gendarmerie captain. Court to deliver verdict on Hungarian WWII criminal Monday The trial began on May 5 and Kepiro denied all accusations. His supporters protested for “putting such an old man on trial”. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has stated that at least 1,246 people, mostly Jews, Serbs and Roma, were killed and thrown under the ice of the frozen Danube River. Some experts claim that 4,000 people were killed at the time. Kepiro was sentenced for the crime twice during and after WWII, but he escaped to Austria and later to Argentina where he lived until 1996 when he returned to Hungary. The Simon Wiesenthal Center discovered in 2006 that Kepiro lived in Budapest and that he had Hungarian pension. Kepiro’s trial is the first trial of a suspected Nazi collaborator in Hungary since the fall of communism. Sandor Kepiro (Beta)

Court to deliver verdict on Hungarian WWII criminal Monday

The trial began on May 5 and Kepiro denied all accusations. His supporters protested for “putting such an old man on trial”.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has stated that at least 1,246 people, mostly Jews, Serbs and Roma, were killed and thrown under the ice of the frozen Danube River.

Some experts claim that 4,000 people were killed at the time.

Kepiro was sentenced for the crime twice during and after WWII, but he escaped to Austria and later to Argentina where he lived until 1996 when he returned to Hungary.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center discovered in 2006 that Kepiro lived in Budapest and that he had Hungarian pension.

Kepiro’s trial is the first trial of a suspected Nazi collaborator in Hungary since the fall of communism.