The occurrences in the Campbell Jewish quarter of Salonica last July gave foreign public opinion a very unfavourable impression of conditions in Greece, the President of the Law Court at Verria, which is trying a number of persons accused of having instigated and participated in the pogrom, reminded the court during to-day’s proceedings.
The accused argued to-day that they had not been attacking Jews, but had only been against the Communists and the bad Jews who were spreading Communist influence in Salonica.
A number of the accused denied that they had been in the Campbell quarter during the pogrom and the incendiarism, and supplied alibis.
The Public Presecutor will close the case for the Prosecution to-morrow (Wednesday), and the verdict may be handed down late on Wednesday night.
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