Gheorghe Gavrila, a former Rumanian police official, who was recently arrested in Jassy, will face a war crimes court for his participation in the 1941 Jassy massacre of Rumanian Jews, it was reported hare today. Gavrila was in command of a police unit at Podul Iloaie, a town near Jassy, when one of two death trains arrive with the survivors of the Jassy pogrom.
Gavrila is charged with robbing the passengers of many and valuable and of stripping the bodies that Gavrila killed a Jew who trying to bring water to fellow prisoners. He will also face charged of trying to extort a huge sun of money from a local Jewish leader who attempted to aid the pogrom victims.
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