|
2 months prison for Klarsfeld
Jerusalem Post July 10, 1974 By BRIAN ARTHUR Jerusalem Post Correspondent COLOGNE. — Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld was given a two-month jail sentence by a German court here yesterday for her role in the 1971 attempted kidnapping of wartime Paris Gestapo chief Kurt Lischka. Mrs. Klarsfeld, 35, smiling and undaunted, afterward told The Jerusalem Post that the sentence "proves that German justice hasn't changed." But she said she though her trial had achieved its purpose of exposing Nazi criminals who are still at large in this country because of loopholes in West German justice. Judge Vlktor de Somoskeoy gave Mrs. Klarsfeld one month to appeal the verdict. Until then she is free, and her attorney, Arie Marinsky, of Israel, said she would return to her Paris home to decide her next legal moves. Announcing the two-month sentence, Judge de Somoskeoy ordered the 22 days Mrs. Klarsfeld was detained before trial to be deducted and told her the court would "most cordially" support a clemency application to the State Justice Minister. Justice officials explained to reporters afterwards that this meant such an application would be granted. As the judge adjourned the court after delivering his hour-long opinion, the spectators gallery, packed with former French Resistance fight* ers and victims of Hitler, burst out singing the French national anthem. Newspaper and television reporters pressed about Mrs. Klarsfeld, 35, a mother of two children, as she left the court building, clutching a bouquet of white flowers against her pink summer coat. As she walked out onto the street she was met by, a surge of applause from several hundred demonstrators who had assembled before the court house to display banners demanding punishment for Lischka and other Nazi killers. Mrs. Klarsfeld never denied that she had taken part in the attempt to abduct Kurt Lischka, 65, near his Cologne home and take him to France to serve a life sentence handed down in 1950 by a French military court for his part in sending an |
