Professor Ludwig Zind of Offenbach, the anti-Semitic teacher who fled from West Germany to avoid a one-year jail term for saying publicly that not enough Jews had been gassed, was en route to Tripoli today.
Zind was placed aboard an Italian ship yesterday by police who have had him under surveillance since he was released from a Naples jail on April 12. After leaving West Germany, he turned up in Naples where he was spotted by some Israeli sailors who called police.
A lower court held that his offense was a political one and refused to extradite him to West Germany, When the Rome Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest court, upheld the lower court, Zind was released from jail. He reportedly had been en route to a teaching job in Egypt when he was arrested in Naples.
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