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Hungarian Chauvinism

 Hungarian court supports Nazi

 Thursday, March 1, 2007

BUDAPEST, Hungary-The 1944 conviction and sentencing of a Hungarian man suspected of war crimes committed during
World War II cannot be enforced, a court said Thursday, announcing a ruling it made earlier this month.

Sandor Kepiro, 93, was identified by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as having been convicted twice in Hungarian courts,
in 1944 and 1946, but never punished for his alleged role in killings committed by Hungarian forces in Novi Sad,
Serbia, after they entered the region in the wake of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II.

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Wiesenthal Center's office in Israel, provided authorities with information about the
1944 ruling and asked that the 10-year prison sentence against Kepiro be enforced.

The Budapest Municipal Court issued a statement saying the ruling by a Hungarian military court which sentenced
Kepiro to 10 years in 1944 cannot be enforced. The municipal court said its ruling was made Feb. 19, and was made
public Thursday.

It can be appealed within eight days, the court said.

The municipal court did not provide an explanation for the ruling.

Kepiro, who moved back to Hungary in 1996 after decades in Argentina, says he was the victim of a show trial in 1944
and that the ruling was later annulled. He has denied the accusations.

Source: Serbianna