The Minister of Interior, Dr. Louis Beel, refused today to impeach Dr. Franz Schokking, Mayor of The Hague, who has been charged with responsibility in the deportation and death of a Jewish family in a small Dutch Village of which he was Mayor during the Nazi occupation. Dr. Beel made his statement in Parliament, on the basis of an investigation of Dr. Schokking’s behavior by a special three-man commission. Parliament is scheduled to debate the matter after its Easter recess.
Meanwhile, Miss Miriam Pino, sister of the head of the deported family, has lodged a complaint against Mayor Schokking charging that he ordered the arrest of the family by German security forces on the grounds that the Pino family was “provocative.” The incident is alleged to have occurred in the village of Hazerswoude in 1942.
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