The Police Commissary of Salonica, M. Payadakin, was sharply rebuked to-day by the Public Prosecutor and the President of the Court at the continued hearing at Verria of the trial of the Salonica pogromists, when he declared that he had made enquiries as a result of which he did not think it had been Nationalists who had injured the Greek airman Koutsomiris, who had described in his evidence to the court how he had been attacked and wounded by rioters while he had been trying to protect Jews.
He thought that it was not improbable, the Police Commissary said, that M. Koutsomiris had been wounded by the Jews themselves, who had been incited by Communists to attack him in order that they should afterwards be able to put the blame on the Nationalists. The Public Prosecutor drew attention to a number of inconsistencies in the Commissary’s present evidence as compared with what he had stated in his evidence on Saturday, and reminded him that he was under oath.
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