A member of the crew of a German ship who painted a swastika on the ship in broad daylight in the Haifa harbor was fined 100 Israel pounds by a Haifa magistrate yesterday. The sailor, Paul Biagansky, 18, was stopped by police who had been called by dock workers. The sailor said he had “recalled” that the swastika was a German “official emblem” and that he had no intention of irritating anyone.
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