Nazi suspect Charles Zentai wins Australia extradition case

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News

14 August 2012 Last updated at 22:12 ET
Nazi suspect Charles Zentai wins Australia extradition case

A suspected Nazi war criminal has won his legal fight against the Australian government's attempts to extradite him to face trial in Hungary.

Charles Zentai, 90, was alleged to have tortured and murdered a Jewish teenager in Budapest in 1944.

But the Australian High Court backed an earlier ruling that he could not be extradited because there was no offence of "war crime" in Hungary in 1944.

Mr Zentai has been fighting extradition since 2009.

He has also denied the allegations that he committed the crime. He is accused of carrying out the crime with two other Nazi-backed Hungarian soldiers.


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19264310

[Ash_F]

1. He still did something deserving of punishment

"He has also denied the allegations that he committed the crime. He is accused of carrying out the crime with two other Nazi-backed Hungarian soldiers. "

Even if he did not murder that boy, he was still working in support of a repressive regime. There was a Hungarian resistance movement he could have joined. But instead he decided to work for the Nazis.

Oh wait, that is too much to ask of people. To be on the right side of something. I remember getting my shit jumped on this board for suggesting everyone should have resisted the draft during Vietnam.