Demjanjuk Attorney Leaps to Death Week Before Appeal Trial
A lawyer for convicted Nazi war criminal John (Ivan the Terrible) Demjanjuk leaped to his death today from the 15th story of an office tower, police said.
The death of 53-year-old Dov Eitan came less than a week before Israel’s Supreme Court was to hear Demjanjuk’s appeal of his conviction and death sentence for Nazi war crimes.
Eitan died at 8:30 a.m. after hurling himself from an upper floor of the City Towers office complex in downtown Jerusalem, police spokesman Rafi Levy said.
“He jumped from the 15th floor,” Levy said. “There are no other details.”
Israel radio reported police found bits of polish from Eitan’s shoes on the sill of the window that he jumped from.
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