Sweden Won’t Take Action Against 12 Suspected Nazis
Sweden will not take action against 12 people identified by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center as suspected war criminals, authorities said today.
Officials at the center said the 12 people, who are believed to be living in Sweden, were suspected of participating in Nazi crimes against Jews in Latvia and Estonia after those Baltic states were occupied by the German army in 1941. (Story on Page 14.)
The statute of limitation in Sweden is 25 years for crimes carrying life sentences, said Johan Munch, head of the Justice Ministry’s legal department.
“Their crimes have already lapsed and Swedish law does not allow extradition to another country” after 25 years, he said.
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