Sandor Kepiro, 97, took part in raids on Serbia, in which 1,200 Jews were killed;
was tracked down by Wiesenthal Center Nazi hunter Efraim
Zuroff.
The Nazi war crimes trial of a 97-year-old man began in Hungary
on Thursday.
Sandor Kepiro, listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as the world's most wanted
Nazi, was charged with taking part in raids
on the Serbian town of Novi Sad in 1942, in
which 1,200 Jews, Serbs and Roma were killed.
Kepiro is also suspected of involvement in the deaths of 36 others who were rounded
up and shot on the Danube River's banks.
Kepiro said he is "completely innocent" and called the trial a "circus" as her arrived at court, BBC reported.
The
Simon Wiesenthal Center tracked Kepiro down
in Budapest in 2006. He had been convicted
of Nazi war crimes in Hungary in 1944, but
fled to Argentina.
The
Wiesnthal Center's chief Nazi hunter, Efraim
Zuroff, attended the trial. On Tuesday, he
was acquitted of libel charges leveled against
him by Kepiro.
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