The Lublin Court of Appeals published today a 45-page booklet explaining its motives in increasing sentences imposed by a lower court against eleven Jews convicted of participating in rioting in Przytyk last March in which two Jews and a Polo were killed and scores of Jews wounded. Jews were sentenced up to eight years, while Poles were given terms ranging to two years.
The increased sentences, the booklet explains, were motivated by the Court’s conviction that it was necessary to apply severe measures against stimulating of racial and religious excesses.
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