Hungary
questions Nazi-era war crimes suspect |
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Prosecutors in Hungary have questioned
suspected Nazi war criminal Sandor Kepiro about the murder
of civilians in Serbia during World War II.
Gabriella Skoda of the Budapest Chief Prosecutor's Office says 95-year-old Kepiro
was questioned Tuesday about allegedly relaying orders as
a Hungarian officer to soldiers who killed four civilians
in Novi Sad, Serbia, in 1942. In all, some 1,200 Serb and
Jewish civilians were killed by Hungarian forces who raided
the region in the wake of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia.
In 1944, Kepiro was sentenced to 10
years in prison for his part in those atrocities, but the
conviction was later annulled.
The Wiesenthal Center has accused
him of playing an active role in the "mass murder of at least hundreds of civilians" there.
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