Six Jews go on trial for murder here tomorrow in a case likely to reveal details on the Arab-Israeli underground war. The six have all been charged in connection with the slaying last year of a Moroccan citizen Ahmed Boushicki in the resort town of Lillehammer, 100 miles north of here. According to formal charges, the six detainees, all arrested within days of the slaying, “were members of a group numbering about 15 persons, responsible for the July 21 shooting of Ahmed Boushicki.”
The six detainees all face charges of conspiracy to commit murder, and espionage. All face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The trial is expected to last several weeks. Two of the six are Michael Dorf, 26 and Zwi Steinberg, 29, both Israeli citizens. Their arrest in the Oslo apartment of Israeli security attache, Yigal Eyal to led to a diplomatic episode culminating in Eyal’s expulsion. The other four suspects are Dan Aerbel, 35, Sylvia Rafael, 36, Abraham Gehmer, 36, and Marianne Gladnikoff, 30. Aerbel is Danish, while the actual nationality of the other three has not yet been determined. All are of Jewish extraction.
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