Posted on 02/12/2019 4:49:07 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
A Swedish court in Gothenburg has refused a Polish request for the extradition of a Stalinist-era judge suspected of issuing unlawful death sentences to underground fighters in the 1950s.
Judge Mats Hagelin justified the decision by declaring that the crimes that the former judge, Stefan Michnik, allegedly committed in Poland decades ago were covered by a statute of limitations under Swedish law.
In October, a Polish court issued an European arrest warrant for Michnik, who is suspected of committing 30 crimes “bearing the hallmarks of crimes against humanity” in Warsaw in 1952 and 1953.
The ninety-year-old, who has Swedish citizenship, is the step-brother of Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.
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“I just don’t see any constructive point in going after old men who are about to die anyway.”
I do. He basically ordered the murders of dozens of people. Send him to Poland. That’s where the crimes we committed.
Personally I think it excellent policy to hunt down Commie murderers, drag them bag to the scenes of the crimes in chains, give them a fair trial, and then execute them.
I don’t care if they’re 150.
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How is he not Polish?
He was born in an area that was Polish from 1349-1772 and again from 1920 or so until 1939.
Is it because he is of Jewish descent and you consider that to be a non-Polish ethnicity?
I know the area where he was from changed hands repeatedly, hence Lvow, Lwow, Lviv, Lemberg; all names for the largest local city and the multiplicity of ethnicities inhabiting the area, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Ruthenians, Jews, Gypsies....
Stalin after the war appointed many such “Poles” because he knew that they would not have any compassion. He was a citizen of Poland, I don’t deny.
Does that include old men who participated in the Holocaust?
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