Slovakia seeks fresh trial for Hungarian Nazi, 98
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April 3, 2013, Wednesday
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A Slovak court said yesterday it will seek the extradition of Laszlo Csatary, a 98-year-old alleged Nazi-era war criminal, from Hungary for re-trial in Slovakia on charges of crimes against humanity.
A communist-era Czechoslovakian court sentenced the ethnic Hungarian to death in absentia in 1948 for having organized the World War II deportation to their deaths of some 16,000 Jews from the ghetto of Kosice in present-day southeast Slovakia, then part of Hungary.
But last year a Kosice citizen whose father was deported to Germany in January 1945 filed charges against Csatary for crimes against humanity, which carry no statute of limitations, insisting that he be tried on Slovak soil.
Since the death penalty is now banned in Slovakia, the court in Kosice reduced Csatary's sentence to life imprisonment to help pave the way for his extradition, court spokeswoman Marcela Galova said.
A communist-era Czechoslovakian court sentenced the ethnic Hungarian to death in absentia in 1948 for having organized the World War II deportation to their deaths of some 16,000 Jews from the ghetto of Kosice in present-day southeast Slovakia, then part of Hungary.
But last year a Kosice citizen whose father was deported to Germany in January 1945 filed charges against Csatary for crimes against humanity, which carry no statute of limitations, insisting that he be tried on Slovak soil.
Since the death penalty is now banned in Slovakia, the court in Kosice reduced Csatary's sentence to life imprisonment to help pave the way for his extradition, court spokeswoman Marcela Galova said.
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