The trial of Captain Panisoara and three gendarmes accused of torturing the Zionist leader, Samson Bronstein of Yedinez, Bessarabia, in May, 1932, which was scheduled to open yesterday was postponed for the fourth time.
Lack of witnesses was given again as the reason for the postponement of the trial. The date of the trial has now been set for April 25.
The perpetrators of the attack and torture of Bronstein, who was arrested on baseless charges of conducting Communist activities, which in Roumania are regarded as subversive, were originally scheduled to be placed on trial last August in Czernowitz.
Then the trial was set for October 18th before the Czernowitz Court of Appeal. When that day arrived a change of venue was ordered and the date set for December 20th in Bronstein’s home town. On December 20th, the trial was again postponed until February 14th and today it again failed to take place.
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