Constantin Danila, who led the anti-Jewish demonstrations in Borsha in the summer of 1930, which culminated in the burning down of the town, rendering the entire Jewish population homeless, has been sentenced at Sziget, the capital of the Marmorosz district, to one year’s imprisonment and three years’ deprivation of rights.
Danila has lately been conducting a “National Communist” agitation, inciting the peasants in the Marmorosz area to seize land and other property by force, linked with and anti-Jewish campaign which caused much anxiety to the Jewish population of the Borsha neighbourhood.
The present sentence has been passed on Danila for leading a mob which broke into the Borsha “National House”, while it was being dedicated by ex-Senator Alexander Anderco-Cuza, the leader of the National Peasants’ Party in the Marmorosz district.
In Jewish quarters it is hoped that with Danila in prison, and the antisemitic priest Ion Dumitrescu, who was associated with him in the incitement which resulted in the Porsha incendiarism, transferred to a non-Jewish area in Old Roumania, the situation in the Rorsha area will be more quiet.
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