PARIS PURGE COURT
Death Sentence On Journalist For Collaboration CROWDS LYNCH FOUR MEN Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 29. The Paris Purge Court sentenced to death Henri Beraud, journalist, for collusion with the enemy. Evidence showed that Beraud's paper Gringoire was read at every mess in the French Navy and widely contributed to the Navy's demoralisation. Beraud during the trial said: "I hate the Germans, the British and practically all foreigners. I-am 100 per cent a Frenchman.' The judge retorted: "I don't know where we would be to-day without the British." Infuriated crowds lynched four men as a protest against the reprieve of a former Mayor of Aries, says the British United Press Paris correspondent. Resistance members, when they heard the Mayor's death sentence had been commuted, called on the people to protest. A mob stormed the prison but the Mayor had already been transferred elsewhere. They dragged out and shot four other accused men under the death sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 309, 30 December 1944, Page 5
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