John Demjanjuk’s son accused Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper of “sensationalism” on Monday for publishing photos of his father walking outside the Bavarian nursing home where he lives after his release from jail.
Demjanjuk was convicted May 12 of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder after a Munich court found he served as a guard at the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp.
He was sentenced to five years in prison but immediately released pending his appeal, which could take as much as two years, after the court ruled he was not a flight risk.
Images of the 91-year-old lying in a bed in the courtroom dominated press coverage of his 18-month trial. Bild’s Sunday edition published pictures of Demjanjuk walking, with the headline “The Bad Guy’s Miracle Recovery.”
John Demjanjuk Jr. told The Associated Press in an email, however, that the photographs indicate nothing about his father’s medical condition.
Demjanjuk suffers from a number of medical problems, including chronically low hemoglobin levels. More than a dozen trial sessions were canceled so that he could receive blood transfusions and other medical treatment.
“It’s paparazzi sensationalism and has nothing to do with the legal situation,” Demjanjuk Jr. said of the Bild photographs. “Since coming to Germany and before, my father has been able to walk short distances on good days while on other days, he is confined to bed. Nobody has ever said otherwise.”
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Haha typical Nazi!!
flight risk! haul him back in!!
he should be walking between bars!!!
Yemach shemo
should have put him behind bars right away.
How do you get 5 years for murdering 28,060 people?
and i thought only arabs lie!
Let him live out his life peacefully. What Hashem has in store for this Rasha Yemach Shemo in the Oilum Ha’emes is what he truly deserves, a few years in prison is a sad joke for what this animal did…
This is clearly a case of unwarranted mercy being shown to one who has been proven to have been part of such a cruel organization. He should be required to carry heavy shackles and other iron restraints the rest of his life.
#6, I don’t know if anyone besides the judges have the answer to that question!!!
5 years for this animal for killing over 28,000 people and how many years for Rubashkin???? Tell me where the justice is in this!!!!
I’d like to spend a few hours with him in his cell, with only a list of my ancestors killed in my hand, both young and old. He won’t have five years left to serve anymore.