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Israeli Journalist Reported Sentenced in Spain to Nine Years in Prison

August 4, 1961
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Zvi Aldoubi, an Israeli Journalist, and Jacques Fenchor, a French companion on a foray into Spain, have been sentenced to nine and six years imprisonment respectively by a Spanish court, according to unconfirmed reports received here from Madrid.

According to the reports, the two men appeared on July 28 before a military tribunal in Barcelona, together with two Spaniards alleged to be involved in the same affair. They were charged with having attempted to create a subversive movement in Spain and with illegal import of arms and anarchist tracts.

Earlier stories had been to the effect that Aldoubi went to Spain on a clandestine bid to abduct Leon DeGrdle, the former Belgian Nazi leader, who is now living in Spain. According to the reports from Madrid, the two Spaniards were acquitted.

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