Only reporters have to date made
use of an infoline gathering information about Polish Nazi
collaborators and participants in Jewish pogroms opened Wednesday
by the Jerusalem- based Simon Wiesenthal centre. Information
transmitted via such lines will be analyzed in Jerusalem,
and transferred to the Institute of National Remembrance
(IPN).
Callers whose information leads to
the seizure and conviction of Nazi collaborators will be
paid 10,000 euros.
Polish archbishop Jozef Zycinski said today that revealing
such information for money and not for elementary human reasons
was morally wrong. I value the Wiesenthal Centre highly but
(...) here I have to say no, Zycinski said, stressing that
the true motive for bringing collaborators to justice should
be human solidarity and not money.
Marek Edelman, last surviving
commander of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, told PAP Wednesday
that he saw nothing wrong in offering money for informarion
about Nazi collaborators and pogrom participants. All over
the world if you're looking for a killer you pay for information. Besides, money gives you a better
chance of getting it. [Saddam - PAP] Hussein was caught only
after U.S. president George W. Bush offered millions of dollars
for information about him and Osama bin Laden. So I see nothing
wrong with the idea or the whole project, Edelman opined.
Efraim Zuroff from the Wiesenthal Centre in Jersualem said
the offering money for information about offenders was "normal practice". In democracies it is normal practice to offer payment for information leading
to the seizure of a criminal offender, Zuroff said.
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