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Frail year-old ex-police captain cleared by war crimes court of rounding up and killing Jews and Serbs in World War II

• Hungarian had topped Simon Wiesenthal's most wanted Nazi list
• Verdict being read out over two days because of Sandor Kepiro's ill health
• Admitted supervising IDs of victims rounded up but claimed to know nothing of their slaughter
  

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
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Acquitted: Sandor Kepiro, 97, was on trial for war crimes dating back 69 years

A year-old man was sensationally cleared of committing war crimes during World War II today.

The charges stemmed from a raid by pro-Nazi Hungarian forces in Serbia.

Sandor Kepiro had been charged by prosecutors of involvement in the killing of some 35 people.

The killings took place during an anti-partisan raid in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, which was then under Hungarian control, on January 23,

Hungary was a member of the Axis powers - allied with Germany, Italy and Japan - from , participating in the invasion of Yugoslavia, of which Serbia was then part.

Prosecutors had claimed that unidentified members of a patrol under Kepiro's command killed four people during the raid.

Kepiro, at the time a gendarmerie captain, was also suspected of being involved in the deaths of around 30 others who were e

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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewslife 

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)&#; Hungarian prosecutors say they have charged a former Hungarian military officer with war crimes in the World War Two massacre of up to 1, civilians in neighboring Serbia. The decision to charge Sandor Kepiro follows pressure from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is searching for Nazi war criminals around the world.

Hungarian prosecutors confirmed Monday, February 14, that Kepiro has been indicted for involvement in murdering over one thousand civilians in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, during World War Two. &#;In January the defendant, as an officer of the gendarme, participated in the illegal massacre of unarmed and innocent people in Vojvodina,&#; said Gabriella Skoda, the spokesperson of the Budapest prosecutor&#;s office.

Prosecutors say Kepiro, who will turn 97 this week, ordered his patrol to shoot civilians to death between January 21 and January 23, , near the Danube river. The bloodshed became known as &#;the massacre of Novi Sad&#;, named after the city where the killings took place.

He escaped to Argentina, but in the Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Center revealed that he was now living in Budapest. Prosecutors launched an investigation into