Hungarian Authorities: Laszlo Csatary

Laszlo Csatary: Csatary died Saturday of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital, said his lawyer, Gabor Horvath B, according to CBC. Csatary was sentenced to death in absentia in Czechoslovakia in 1948 for similar war crimes. Last month, a Budapest court suspended the case against Csatary because of double jeopardy, as the charges filed by Hungarian prosecutors were similar to those in his 1948 conviction. Hungarian prosecutors appealed the decision and a ruling was pending and Laszlo Csatary, a former police officer indicted in June by Hungarian authorities for abusing Jews and contributing to their deportation to Nazi death camps during the Second World War, has died. He was 98. Hungarian authorities have said Csatary was the chief of an internment camp for Jews in Kosice a Slovak city then part of Hungary in 1944, beating them with his bare hands and a dog whip. He had also been charged with assisting in the deportation of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps. He denied all those charges. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.