Outrage after 97-year-old cleared of WWII crimes

A 97-YEAR-OLD man was cleared of war crimes charges stemming from a raid by Hungarian forces that killed 35 people in Serbia during the Second World War.

Campaigners who considered the case “one of the last major trials” of alleged Holocaust-era war criminal suspects were shocked by the verdict.

“It’s an absolutely outrageous decision,” Efraim Zuroff, the chief “Nazi hunter” with the Wiesenthal Centre’s Jerusalem office said.