Charged with having participated in an attempt to use explosives to harm the editor of a Socialist newspaper, with having maliciously damaged private property and with having inflicted personal injury upon a Jewish merchant, a member of the National Front Party of Swiss anti-Semite Fascists was sentenced here to spend a year and a half in jail and to lose his citizenship rights for two years.
Gloor, the sentenced man, is twenty-three years old. With five other terrorist members of the National Front Party he was tried for the various offenses enumerated and for a number of other anti-Semitic attacks as well, including the raiding of a Jewish praying local.
At the trial a representative of the “Minian Sfard,” whose quarters had been attacked, spoke in a forgiving manner of the accused, declaring they were merely victims of the National Front’s anti-Semitic propaganda and were not to be held fully responsible. The trial was important, the “Minian Sfard” representative said, merely as a means of making a moral accusation against the true authors of the crime.
Two of the five persons tried with Gloor received four months in jail each, and two, two months. The fifth, accused with Gloor of having forcibly cut the beard of the merchant, received a one-week sentence.
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