DANISH NAZIS

Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 11

DANISH NAZIS

SHOTS FIRED IN PARLIAMENT SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright COPENHAGEN, May 6. Erik Waste"rgaard Jensen, who fired a pistol in Parliament, was sentenced to 40 days in prison/ Jess 16 alreadyspent in custody. Four accomplices, who threw down pamphlets in Parliament, were sentenced ti) 20 days’ imprisonment, but three of them were liberated, as they have already served that period. [A message from Copenhagen on April 13 stated: A young man who was sitting in the visitors’ gallery in Parliament with a number of others of his own age, fired two shots. It is believed that they were meant to draw attention to Nazi leaflets which a demonstrator showered down. The leaflets accused Parliament of corruption and misgovern men t. Wastcrgaard and others were arrested. Parliament was debating the new immigration law. to .Which the Danish Nazis are opposed.}