War criminal misses court proceedings against Simon Wiesenthal
Center director; Zuroff: "Bring this Holocaust perpetrator to justice."
A Hungarian court on Friday rejected a libel suit filed by
a convicted war criminal against Simon Wiesenthal Center's
Efraim Zuroff.
The judge terminated the legal proceedings because complainant Dr. Sandor Kepiro
failed to appear in court.
“While I am naturally relieved that this legal harassment by Kepiro has been
rejected by the court, the
real issue of Kepiro’s guilt
has still not been addressed
properly by the Hungarian prosecutors
who have been investigating
his case for over three and
a half years," Zuroff said.
"Given the fact that Kepiro was convicted by a Hungarian court in 1944 in relation
to the massacre in Novi Sad
and the extremely strong evidence
available regarding his role
in the arrests and roundups
of numerous residents of the
city who were murdered by the
Hungarian forces on January
23, 1942, Kepiro should have
been brought to justice long
ago," he said.
"In
view of the fact that Kepiro
was already 92 years old when
I initially submitted the information
regarding his residence in
Budapest to the prosecutors
on August 1, 2006, it is particularly
unfortunate that his case was
not expedited by the Hungarian
authorities. We therefore urge
the prosecutors in Budapest
to do everything possible to
finally bring this Holocaust
perpetrator to justice.” jpost.com
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