Seven Hills - The legal tug of war at the former concentration camp sensation John Demjanjuk goes into the next round. Living in the U.S. 89-year-old, which is to be held in Munich, the process was already on the way to the airport. But a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ordered a temporary halt to the extradition procedure.
Demanjuk is accused of accessory to murder in 29 000 cases. He must have heard in 1943 for half a year to the guards of the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor in Poland at that time occupied by Germany.
Born in the Ukraine must be brought to justice in Munich because he lived in the early 50's near the state capital.
Demjanjuk, who had already been taken by officials of the U.S. immigration authorities detained escaped by a hair of the imminent transfer to Germany.
The reasoning of the Court: the appeal against the extradition of Demjanjuk would require "further consideration" on the side of justice. Previously, Demjanjuk's lawyer, John Broadley had made an urgent motion to obtain a fresh examination of the removal procedure by injunction.
Despite the setback, Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, confident that Demjanjuk is ultimately delivered. Here, said the former concentration camp guards had to be, despite his advanced age and his poor health brought to justice. The people who had been inflated with his help in the gas chambers, "would like to become 89 years old." The Simon Wiesenthal Center is concerned with the processing of the Holocaust.
Demjanjuk's family was surprised by the decision of the Court of Appeals apparently. They had passed through her tears as the 89-year-old was picked up by immigration authorities in a van. Demjanjuk was crying and was taken away by officials in a wheelchair out of the house.
Since Good Friday Demjanjuk had no legal protection against one more rendition of the German judiciary. On that day, the competent immigration authority had rejected a renegotiation of the extradition proceedings, thus clearing the way for the deportation of the alleged concentration camp overseer.
How the U.S. Immigration Department announced that Demjanjuk was allowed to return to his first house. There he was to be monitored as before with an electronic ankle bracelet. The U.S. authorities would work together in the case continue to work closely with authorities in Germany, a spokeswoman assured.
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