ESPIONAGE TRIAL IN POLAND
TWO FRENCHMEN IMPRISONED
SENTENCES ON FOUR POLES
WARSAW, February 14. Andre Robineau, a 25-year-old French consular official, was to-day sentenced at Szczecin to 12 years’ imprisonment for. spying. Gaston Douet, a 46-year-old French radio mechanic, who admitted working with Robineau, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. Bronislaw Kilmczak, aged 36, a Polish intelligence officer before the war. was sentenced to death. He had pleaded guilty to collecting information on Polish and Soviet military units.
Stefan Pielacki, another Pole, .aged 24, was sentenced to life imprisonment. He had told the Court that he had recruited six other informers to supply him with military information.
Two other Poles were sentenced to 15 and eight years’ imprisonment. The prosecution had asked for long sentences for Robineau and Douet. and death sentences for Pielacki and Kilmczak.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26039, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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