State Prosecutor Karobski today took personal charge of the investigation into Tuesday evening’s anti-Jewish riots in the Lodz Municipal Council.
The Ministry of Interior, which is interested in the case, announced today that photographs were taken by an official of the Ministry during the riots at the session of the Municipal Council. These photographs will figure in the court proceedings as material evidence.
The Lodz riots, which were carried out by councillors who are members of the anti-Semitic National Democratic Party (Endeks), have aroused a wave of indignation throughout the country. A number of Jewish and Socialist members of the council were injured when the anti-Semitic councillors hurled furniture and inkwells at them.
M. Karobski announced today that the proceedings against the councillors guilty of starting the riots will be based on the section of the Penal Code which provides a sentence of two years’ imprisonment.
In view of excitement throughout the country, the National Democratic newspapers in Lodz and in Warsaw are busy in their efforts to prove that the Lodz outbreak was the result of “a Jewish provocation.”
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