Most-wanted Nazi denies war crime claims
Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary, who is accused of
overseeing the deportation of thousands of Jews during World War II, has denied
all allegations against him, his lawyer said.
Lawyer Gabor Horvath made the announcement after the
97-year-old appeared at a three-hour closed-door hearing at the prosecutor's
office in Budapest.
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre accuses Csatary
of organising the World War II deportation of some 16,000 Jews from the ghetto
of Kosice, in present-day Slovakia, to their deaths at the Auschwitz extermination
camp.
Tuesday's hearing was aimed at enabling prosecutors to
lay out their evidence against Csatary, who was arrested earlier this month
after apparently living for years undisturbed in Hungary.
No formal charges have yet been filed against Csatary,
who was listed by the Wiesenthal Centre as its top most wanted Nazi war
criminal, and is now under house arrest.
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