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AN EXTRAORDINARY
TRIAL IN COLOGNE
On the first day of the trial, Le Monde prints
an article that spells out for the ruling circles in France the basis of the
problem I, the accused, am trying to resolve. After that article we are in good
shape to combat German justice: the French understand why we are fighting. The
administrative assistant of Prime Minister Chirac receives Serge and assures
him that France wants to prevent my going to jail, even though they are
skeptical about ratification – all French overtures on the subject have
been repulsed by German inertia.
I will sum up the details of the
trial:
First session, June 25, 1974. I am not alone. Many of my
supporters have come from Paris. Judge de Somoskoey has still not said whether
he will admit witnesses for the defense. He has said he himself does not
consider them necessary in order to inform the court of my motivation. Yet many
French persons have performed illegal acts with me on several occasions in
Germany, and it is obvious that their testimony would introduce some
interesting elements, as would the testimony in German of the historian Joseph
Billig on Lischka's career. But the judge does not want to listen to this. His
move has been to call in a renowned psychiatrist to listen to the proceedings
and give his opinion of me.
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