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Demjanjuk is 'fit to stand trial'

July 3, 2009 14:58
Demjanjuk: declared fit to stand trial in Munich

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Jessica Elgot,

Jessica Elgot

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The suspected war criminal, John Demjanjuk, has been declared fit enough to stand trial in Germany, despite his family's pleas that he is too frail.

Demjanjuk, 89, was deported in May from his home in the US to stand trial in Munich, where he is currently in hospital with gout.

But after a medical check-up, doctors declared him fit to face trial by the German court for his alledged war crimes, even though his family insist he is too ill to cope with the trial.

Ukraine-born Demjanjuk denies accusations that he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp, and therefore complicit in the murder of 29,000 Jews.

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