A Lithuanian court issued an arrest warrant for an 85-year-old man suspected of murdering Jews during World War II. Now living in Scotland, Anton Gecas is alleged to have killed Jews and other civilians when he was head of a special Nazi police unit in a part of Lithuania that is now in the former Soviet republic of Belarus.
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