Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has this weekend denied extradition of an anti-Semitic West German teacher who fled a one-year jail term for publicly declaring that “not enough Jews were gassed.”
Ludwig Zind fled from West Germany on a forged passport to Italy while an appeals court in Karlsruhe which upheld a lower court sentence, was pondering the case. He was spotted in Naples by some Israeli sailors who turned him in to police. A lower court in Italy ruled that his crime was a political one and that he was entitled to political asylum.
That ruling was upheld by the Court of Cassation. It appeared that Zind would not take advantage of the asylum and would carry out his original plan to resettle in South America.
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