A Toronto magistrate sentenced neo-Nazi John Beattie and two of three Jewish anti-Nazis on charges growing out of a wild melee in a Toronto park last May where the 23-year-old unemployed neo-Nazi tried to stage an anti-Semitic rally.
Beattie was found guilty of causing a public disturbance and fined $150. He was given a month to pay the fine. Asked if he had anything to say, he told Magistrate Fred Hayes “I am sorry I was found guilty.” Outside the courtroom he gave photographers the Nazi salute.
The three Jews were Samuel Kaplan, 34, Max Beinblich, 33, and Ignac David, 43, all of whom lost their families in the Nazi holocaust and who knew of the Nazi terror at first hand. Beinblich was fined $150 for causing a public disturbance. David was sentenced to 30 days in prison on assault charges.
The Magistrate noted that David had assaulted an innocent person, a stranger in Toronto, who was merely walking in Allan Gardens park on May 30 and had no knowledge or relation to the neo-Nazi rally. Four others accused in the melee will be tried in November, the court announced.
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