The Italian tribunal trying 22-year-old Celeste de Porto on charges of betraying Jews to the Gestapo last night adjourned her trial until March 14, after completion to the trial of the slayers of Giacomo Mattaotti.
The De Porto woman, who was known as the Black Panther, is of Jewish crigic. She headed a gang of nine Italians who cellaborated with the Nazis, robbed Jews and surrendered them to the Germans. She is charged with responsibility for the death of the 24 Jews who were among the 300-odd persons exconted in the Ardeatine Caves massacre in March of 1944.
At the opening of the trial yesterday several hundred women, many of them widows and relatives of her victims, crowded the outside of the courtroom and shouted: “Kill her, hang her,” when De Porto was brought in.
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