Caitlin Adams
10/29/09
11:20 pm
Nazi hit man goes on trial for 3 murders.
This article is about a former member of Hitler’s obsessive Warren SS who went on trial this week on three counts of murder for the war time hit-style killings of three Netherland citizens in 1944. Boere escaped from the Netherlands before being brought to trial and ever since has managed to avoid prosecution. Teun de Groot, the son of one the victims, was present at the trial. Protestors were outside the courthouse saying Boere should not receive any peace. “Don’t forget, and don’t forgive.” He is facing the rest of his life in prison. Boere’s attorneys are not giving any statements on their strategy and this trial is going to take place over the span of 13 days, longer if needed.
It is so crazy to me that this crime took place in 1944 and is just not going to court. This man is 88 years old and to be honest, facing the rest of his life in prison does not seem like a fit punishment. What he did was wrong. Boere has been living in the past and has refused to let go of his hatred towards Jews. This event as stirred up emotions in the community but it seems like it’s a little too. Something could have been done to stop the hate crimes and lives could have been saved.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33504533/ns/world_news-europe/
1 comment:
I completely am in favor of this man going to trial, but I wish this would have happened a little sooner. By not even going to trial until his late eighties, he has gotten to live out the majority of his life a free man and not had to pay for his actions.
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