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| Hungary Nazi war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro acquitted | Hungary Nazi war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro acquitted |
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| A Hungarian man, Sandor Kepiro, has been found not guilty of committing war crimes during a 1942 raid. | A Hungarian man, Sandor Kepiro, has been found not guilty of committing war crimes during a 1942 raid. |
| A Budapest court acquitted the former police captain, now 97, of ordering the rounding up and execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in Serbia in 1942. | A Budapest court acquitted the former police captain, now 97, of ordering the rounding up and execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in Serbia in 1942. |
| The prosecution had demanded at least a prison sentence for Mr Kepiro, but he insisted he had not killed. | |
| He previously topped the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazis. | He previously topped the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazis. |
| Many of the dozens of people attending the court session cheered and clapped after Judge Bela Varga read out the verdict of the three-judge tribunal, the AP news agency reported. | Many of the dozens of people attending the court session cheered and clapped after Judge Bela Varga read out the verdict of the three-judge tribunal, the AP news agency reported. |
| The reasoning behind the court's verdict is to be read out over two days, Monday and Tuesday, in light of the frailty of the defendant. | The reasoning behind the court's verdict is to be read out over two days, Monday and Tuesday, in light of the frailty of the defendant. |
| More than 1,200 Jewish, Serb and Roma civilians were murdered over three days by Hungarian forces in a notorious massacre in the city of Novi Sad in 1942. | More than 1,200 Jewish, Serb and Roma civilians were murdered over three days by Hungarian forces in a notorious massacre in the city of Novi Sad in 1942. |
| Prosecutors said Mr Kepiro was directly responsible for the deaths of 36 Jews and Serbs - including 30 who were put on a lorry on the defendant's orders and taken away and shot. | Prosecutors said Mr Kepiro was directly responsible for the deaths of 36 Jews and Serbs - including 30 who were put on a lorry on the defendant's orders and taken away and shot. |
| He was convicted of involvement in the killings in Hungary in 1944 but his conviction was quashed by the fascist government. | |
| Mr Kepiro returned to Hungary in 1996 after decades in Argentina. He was first accused in 2006 by Nazi hunters with the Simon Wiesenthal Center. | |
| Mr Kepiro said he had been "the only person to refuse the order to use firearms", and that he had intervened to save five people about to be killed by a corporal. | Mr Kepiro said he had been "the only person to refuse the order to use firearms", and that he had intervened to save five people about to be killed by a corporal. |
| The reliability of some of the documentary and testimonial evidence against him had also been called into question. |