97 Year Old Hungarian Nazi Arrested

[Banana Jelly]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...innocence.html

Sandor Kepiro, 97, stands accused of murdering 36 people during a 1942 operation in the Yugoslav town of Novi Sad that claimed the lives of some 4,200 civilians.
But in court Mr Kepiro, who declared himself fit to stand trial, dismissed the charges.
"I am innocent and I am here on trumped-up charges," he said. "This trial is a terrible thing. There is no basis to this, everything is based on lies."
During the war Mr Kepiro, a gendarme captain in Hungary's fascist forces, took part in the Novi Sad raid but has always maintained that while he helped arrest civilians he took no part on the bloodletting. Hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Roma were taken to the banks of the Danube and shot or thrown into the frozen river alive by Hungarian forces in apparent revenge for partisan attacks.
For his alleged role in the massacre Mr Kepiro at one time topped the Wiesenthal Center's most-wanted Nazis list.
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A little too late and futile in my opinion? Whoever the prosecutor is, must be a douche to prosecute a man nearing his death bed. Should just let him die. But he say's he's innocent anyway, and voluntarily stood trial.

[Their Law]

If he's is responsible for those deaths then frankly he could be dying of cancer and he still should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[Sir Pignans]

He's 97. Let the man die in peace.

[Menelik_I]

He's 97. Let the man die in peace.

He had some relative 70 years of peace hiding, so have him stand trial and be prosecuted for his crime, the families of the victims deserve that.

[alhoon]

These kinds of things are a complete farce unless they have the evidence to back it up. Unless they have it all on paper that this man personally ordered any killing, or took part in any of it by eyewitnesses (which are all probably dead) then its just someone making a political statement.

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He had some relative 70 years of peace hiding, so have him stand trial and be prosecuted for his crime, the families of the victims deserve that.

IF he is guilty.

In which case... what? Keep him in jail? That's not much of a difference for a 97 year old guy after all. Not to mention they'd have to take him to the hospital every once a while. Also, isn't there an alarming number of NeoNazis in Hungary? Perhaps that move is to show the world that Hungary has the extreme right wing under control.

[justicar5]

IF he is guilty.

In which case... what? Keep him in jail? That's not much of a difference for a 97 year old guy after all. Not to mention they'd have to take him to the hospital every once a while. Also, isn't there an alarming number of NeoNazis in Hungary? Perhaps that move is to show the world that Hungary has the extreme right wing under control.

doesn't matter if he only lives 4 minutes in jail what matters is the message: If it takes til the end of time we will find you.

[Dr Zoidberg]

He's 97. Let the man die in peace.

Pity the same couldn't be said for the victims of his alleged crime.

[Sir Pignans]

Pity the same couldn't be said for the victims of his alleged crime.

The fact that the Nazis were dicks isn't really the issue here.

[Manco]

He's 97. Let the man die in peace.

Oh, so you want to actually reward a possible warcriminal for escaping justice?

Prosecute him to the full extent of the law. It's only just.
Mercy can be given after the actual trial, though personally I don't see why he'd deserve any.

[CiviC]

Oh, so you want to actually reward a possible warcriminal for escaping justice?

Prosecute him to the full extent of the law. It's only just.
Mercy can be given after the actual trial, though personally I don't see why he'd deserve any.

Conviction must serve a purpose, aplying the law mechanically serves no purpose. That's why most civilised states have statutes of limitations (prescription in Europe), because if too much time passes, aplying the law isn't serving to anything.

[Oswald von Wolkenstein]

He's 97. Let the man die in peace.

Oh yeah because the statute of limitations on mass murder is only 3 years. Right?

[Admiral Piett]

These kinds of things are a complete farce unless they have the evidence to back it up. Unless they have it all on paper that this man personally ordered any killing, or took part in any of it by eyewitnesses (which are all probably dead) then its just someone making a political statement.

[Tiberios]

These kinds of things are a complete farce unless they have the evidence to back it up. Unless they have it all on paper that this man personally ordered any killing, or took part in any of it by eyewitnesses (which are all probably dead) then its just someone making a political statement.

This. If they have nothing on him, let him go.

[Sir Pignans]

It's cruel and unnesacary, if he's innocent we're wasting the remaining years of his life. Id rather give a guilty man the last three years of life, than deprive an innocent one of his last three.

[Menelik_I]

It's cruel and unnesacary, if he's innocent we're wasting the remaining years of his life. Id rather give a guilty man the last three years of life, than deprive an innocent one of his last three.

He can technically be assigned to residence at this point or given an order to not leave hungary for the duration of the process ... it is not like they are going to dump him prison right now.

[Sir Pignans]

He can technically be assigned to residence at this point or given an order to not leave hungary for the duration of the process ... it is not like they are going to dump him prison right now.

He's been accused of being a Nazi war criminal, I doubt they will go easy on him.

[Menelik_I]

He's been accused of being a Nazi war criminal, I doubt they will go easy on him.

I don't have the time to scan the charges and proofs, not really interested either, but it seems to be one of those case in which He went missing and changed identity to escape prosecution.

[John ''True Grit'' Wayne]

He went missing and changed identity to escape prosecution.

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[Admiral Piett]

It's cruel and unnesacary, if he's innocent we're wasting the remaining years of his life. Id rather give a guilty man the last three years of life, than deprive an innocent one of his last three.

Exactly, if they have such a strong case against him, why wasn't he prosecuted, I dunno, sometime within the last 60 years?

Is there any evidence he purposefully hid from authorities? He wasn't a Nazi either, the thread's title is misleading.

[Sir Pignans]

He says he was there, we know he was there, it was whethe he committed war crimes is the question now I believe.