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Canada Drops
Fascist Charges
Toronto (JTA) — Canadian
Jewish groups have express-
ed shock over the dismissal
of charges against suspected
war criminal Stephen
Reistetter, accused of depor-
ting 3,000 Jews to death
camps in his native
Czechoslovakia in 1942.
The state charged he was a
member of the fascist para-
military Hlinka Guard in
the Sardejov district of what
was then the Nazi puppet
state of Slovakia.
Judge J.B. White of the
Ontario Supreme Court
withdrew charges against
the 76-year-old defendant
after the prosecution decided
not to proceed with the case.
Justice Department at-
torney Gilles Renaud said
there was not enough
evidence to prove Mr.
Reistetter guilty. Elderly
witnesses the prosecution
planned to call had either
died or were too ill to testify,
Mr. Renaud explained.
That prompted David
Matas, senior legal counsel
of B'nai Brith Canada, to
remark, "This case il-
lustrates that the wheels of
justice must turn more
quickly. There is a biological
clock ticking, and as time
passes, opportunities are
lost."
He added, "The govern-
ment of Canada must inten-
sify efforts to bring forward
new cases against alleged
Nazi war criminals. This
case must not be seen as a
roadblock to further pros-
ecutions."
Mr. Reistetter, who came
to Canada in 1948 and
worked for General Motors
until his retirement 10 years
ago, was the third person
charged under legislation
passed in 1987 enabling
Canadian courts to try
alleged war criminals for
offenses committed on for-
eign soil.
The first case tried under
the statute ended last May
with the acquittal of Imre
Finta, a Hungarian-born
restaurateur from Hamilton,
Ontario, who had been
charged with kidnapping,
robbery, manslaughter and
the forcible confinement of
8,600 Jews in Szeged,
Hungary, as an officer in the
Nazi-controlled Hungarian
police in 1944.
Still pending is the case of
Michael Pawlowski, 72, who
is charged with the deaths of
Soviet Jews and Poles in
1942.
The Canadian Justice
Department said it is active-
ly investigating 45 cases.
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