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August 2, 2012

97-Year-Old Hungarian National Accused of Nazi-Era War Crimes 
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A 97-year-old man accused of war crimes during the Nazi Holocaust has
been detained in his native Hungary. Laszlo Csatary is accused of
overseeing the deportation of around 16,000 Jews to the Auschwitz death
camp in 1944. The Simon Wiesenthal Center had named Csatary its
most-wanted surviving war crimes suspect from the Nazi Holocaust. He
lived in Canada for decades after the war, but fled in 1997 to avoid
deportation. International criminal attorney Dan Gellert said it remains
unclear if Hungarian authorities will issue an indictment.

Adam Gellert: "We have witnessed the second suspect interview has just
taken place in less than two weeks. Mr Csatary is 97 years old and the
prosecution should move very fast forward. It always depends, as you
see, on the international pressure being exacted on the Hungarian
authorities. In this case there has been substantial amount of pressure.
But I believe that the prosecution service is now duly investigating
this case. The question still remains whether an indictment will be
served or not."

 

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