The Vilna Court of Appeal which reduced the sentence of Shmuel Wulfin, Jewish student found guilty of taking part in the events leading to the death of a Christian student killed in the anti-Semitic riots last November, from two years to two months, today published the reasons for its verdict.
The Court of Appeal scores the District Court which sentenced Wulfin to two years’ imprisonment for the assertion made when the verdict was handed down that all Jews are enemies of Christians, particularly Poles, because of the sufferings inflicted on them during the course of centuries by the Inquisition and the Christian world as a whole.
This indictment of the Jewish people as a whole aroused considerable indignation among Polish Jewry.
The Court of Appeal makes public its belief now that the District Court was not entitled to this assumption.
It stresses further that it is not unprecluded that Stanislaw Waclawski, the Christian student killed, was accidentally injured.
An appeal against the two months’ sentence imposed by the Appeal Court will be filed with the Highest Court of Instance by counsel for Wulfin as well as by the prosecution.
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