Archbishop ‘incited massacre of Jews’
NZPA-Reuter Detroit Trie United States Justice Department will move to deport a Rumanian archbishop accused of inciting the mass murder of nearly 300 Jews and Christians during World War Two, a high-ranking Government source has said. Valerian Trifa, 65-year-old archbishop of the Rumanian Orthodox episcopate which has some 35,000 members in trie United States, surrendered his United States naturalisation papers to Federal authorities in Detroit earlier this week. United States authorities have charged that Archbishop Trifa illegally entered the United States in 1950,
fraudulently obtaining ' his citizenship by lying about his role in the- anti-semitic Rumanian Iron Guard, or “Green Sriirts.”
According to United States officials working for five years to compile a case against the archbishop, he gave a speech in Bucharest; in January, 1941,that sparked the butchery of nearly 300 Jews and Christians.
A lawyer for 'Archbishop Trifa said his actionjin giving up his citizenship was not an admission of guilt. The archbishop said; in a statement: “I have been denied due process in this protracted litigation."
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