Minister of Justice Steincke, replying to attacks against his prosecution of six Fascist editors for anti-Semitic defamation, said today the action was necessary to “avert real danger.”
In a press statement he declared the decision to prosecute the editors was reached after a careful study of the publications had convinced the authorities that libels of Jews had assumed such gross forms that drastic action was necessary.
Replying to charges that he had failed to halt anti-Catholic attacks, he said that in a country where freedom of conscience was safeguarded, it was necessary to proceed carefully and take legal action only where real danger existed.
He asserted that a real danger exists because readers of Nazi publications have been led to believe every member of the Jewish community a dangerous criminal.
The indictments against the Fascist editors are based on a paragraph of the penal code prohibiting public defamation or insult to any recognized religious community in Denmark.
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