The World - News from Dec. 9, 1986
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The Paris trial of three members of the Direct Action urban guerrilla group in France collapsed when a fifth juror quit for health reasons in the face of a reprisal threat by one of the defendants. Judge Xavier Versini called for an indefinite adjournment of the trial of Regis Schleicher and brothers Claude and Nicolas Halfen on charges of fatally shooting two policemen in May, 1983. At the opening of the trial last Wednesday, Schleicher, 29, threatened the judge and jury with “the rigors of proletarian justice.” The jury had consisted of nine members with four alternates.
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