Youths say minister 'made advances’
NZPA-Reuter Strasbourg (France) The mother of a 16-year-old youth accused of assaulting and robbing the Austrian Foreign Minister (Dr Willibald Pahr) has alleged that Dr Pahr violated public morals and. incited her son to debauchery. Defence lawyers said that the mother, who was not named because her son is a minor, said in a complaint lodged with a senior investigating judge that Dr Pahr made homosexual approaches to her son in the eastern French city early in the morning of February 2.
Dr Pahr issued a statement in Vienna on Tuesday,
“emphatically and categorically” denying similar allegations made by the youth’s co-defendant at a court hearing on Monday. I The youth Ali Mezaach, aged 18. had appeared in' court charged with assault-; ing and robbing Dr Pahr, who was in Strasbourg for al meeting of the Council of Europe. The court was told that the youths left Dr Pahr unconscious on the street after taking his wallet, watch and personal documents. He suffered damaged jibs and head injuries and lost four teeth in the incident. The court adjourned the hearing until next Tuesday and released the defendants on bail.
The investigating judge will decide whether to open an investigation into the mother’s complaint.
Youths say minister 'made advances’
Press, 10 February 1979, Page 9
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