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| US orders Demjanjuk to surrender |
| 2009-05-09 |
| CHICAGO, May 8 (Reuters) - The son of accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk said on Friday his father has been ordered to surrender for deportation to Germany to stand trial for assisting in the deaths of 29,000 Jews. John Demjanjuk Jr. declined to say how quickly his father would have to surrender but said he was told to report to immigration offices in Cleveland at some point for processing. The notice was delivered nearly four weeks after agents removed the 89-year-old retired auto worker from his suburban Cleveland home in a wheelchair to take him for deportation to Germany but had to return him after a court intervened. Since then, the U.S. Appeals Court in Cincinnati vacated its stay preventing his removal, and Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens refused to reinstate the stay. The U.S. appeals court said Demjanjuk's argument that sending him to Germany amounted to torture because he suffered from life-threatening ailments was unlikely to succeed and lifted the stay preventing his deportation. In court filings, prosecutors disputed Demjanjuk's torture claims and submitted videos of him walking unaided. Demjanjuk's attorney, John Broadley, was quoted in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer as telling German reporters that as far as he was concerned the battle to keep his client in the United States was over. But Demjanjuk's son said in an e-mail message, "We are not giving up any legal action." He said the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati can still consider Demjanjuk's request to reopen his case on grounds that deporting his ailing father and putting him on trial amounted to illegal torture. "The case will go on with our without my father present. It could result in a rehearing that will request his return if he is sent to Germany by then," Demjanjuk Jr. said. Also, attorneys representing Demjanjuk in Germany have appealed the country's order extraditing him, which was rejected by one court, and challenged his arrest warrant. A German judge in Munich issued an arrest warrant in March to put the Ukraine-born Demjanjuk on trial for assisting in the deaths of 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination camp during World War Two. Demjanjuk denies any role in the Holocaust and claims he was drafted into the Russian army in 1941, became a German prisoner of war a year later and served at German prison camps until 1944. He was previously extradited to Israel in 1986 to face charges he was sadistic death camp guard Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, in Nazi-occupied Poland. He was convicted and sentenced to death but the conviction was overturned in 1993 by Israel's Supreme Court because evidence showed another Ukrainian guard was likely "Ivan." But U.S. authorities brought new charges and a judge concluded in 2002 he was a guard at three other camps. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 he would die before the trial was over Sehr gut /end wana be SA kook |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-05-09 18:07 |
| #5 I went to college in Cleveland, and they were after that guy back then, uh, 32 YEARS AGO!!! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-05-09 17:36 |
| #4 Somehow I don't think his [alledged] 29,000 victims are going to complain if he lives out the rest of his life in discomfort. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-05-09 13:49 |
| #3 #2, that's a feature, not a bug. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-05-09 12:49 |
| #2 he would die before the trial was over |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-05-09 10:10 |
| #1 We have you surrounded! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-05-09 09:26 |