BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — A Slovak court is mulling whether to ask Hungary to extradite a 97-year-old suspected of abusing Jews and deporting them during the Holocaust.
Laszlo Csatary was arrested in Hungary earlier this month and charged with “unlawful torture of human beings.”
Slovak
authorities are considering whether to request his extradition because
Csatary’s alleged crimes took place in Kosice, a former Hungarian city
now in Slovakia.
Justice Minister Tomas Borec said Monday that a
district court in Kosice has received a file on Csatary and will decide
whether to ask Hungary to extradite him. It wasn’t clear when it would
make its decision.
Some Jewish leaders in Slovakia see advantages
for a trial in Slovakia because there are still living witnesses in
Kosice who could testify against him there.
