(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Joseph Blau, who was sentenced to five months imprisonment on the charge that he participated in the anti-Jewish excesses in Cluj will be granted a new trial.
Details of how Blau was implicated in the events in Cluj during the riots was disclosed by the Roumanian newspaper, "Dimineatza" at the time of his trial before a court martial. Blau stopped on the street to talk with a Christian student, Gregoriu, with whom he had served in the army and who belongs to the same football team. While they stood talking a band of students encircled a Jewish passerby near them, attempting to beat him. Both Blau and Gregoriu intervened, saving the Jewish passerby from the maltreatment of the students. In the meantime a prefect had arrived and demanded to see Blau’s papers. Blau was arrested and prosecuted on the charge of participation in the riots.
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