A promise to consult the Minister of Justice with regard to granting amnesty to the twenty Jewish high school pupils, who were involved in the events in 1926 leading to the murder by an anti-Semitic student of the Jewish student David Falik, in a Czernowitz court, was made today by Premier Maniu to Deputy Meyer Ebner of the Roumanian parliament.
Deputy Ebner was received by the Premier, who promised that the question of whether or not the Jewish students would be reinstated in the schools would be decided next week, after the conference which he would have with the Minister of Justice.
The pupils were arrested for participating in a demonstration arranged by pupils of the national minorities in protest against the alleged unfair methods used in the baccalaureate examinations, when a great number of minority pupils, including Jews, were flunked.
The pupils were punished in the following manner : Those who had not completed their studies in the high schools were expelled for two years, and those who had completed their course lost the right to enter Roumanian universities for a considerable period. It was during the trial of the twenty Jewish pupils that David Falik, a Jewish student, who appeared as a witness, was shot by Nicolai Totu, Hakenkreuzler student.
A petition for amnesty was refused by the Court of Appeals last week.
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