Hungarian Ex-Soldier Acquitted of WWII War Crimes Dies at 97

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And now we go to Hungary, where former gendarme Sandor Kepiro, who was recently acquitted of Holocaust-era war crimes, dies aged 97. Kepiro was cleared of involvement in a massacre of over 1,000 civilians in 1942.

Sandor Kepiro, a Hungarian national recently acquitted of Holocaust-era war crimes, dies at the age of 97.

A Hungarian court cleared Kepiro on July 18th of involvement in the massacre of more than 1,000 civilians in the Serb city of Novi Sad during World War Two.

Kepiro, who was under constant medical surveillance while the verdict was delivered, served as a gendarme during the war.

At the time, parts of Serbia were occupied by troops from Hungary, then allied with Nazi Germany.

More than 1,000 civilians -- Serbs, Jews and Roma -- were killed in the 1942 Novi Sad massacre, ordered in retaliation for attacks by partisans.

The prosecution had said Kepiro was involved in a series of events in which people were rounded up and sent to their deaths before a firing squad.

Kepiro was also charged with being a member of a death squad that murdered people in their homes.

He denied committing murder or knowing about the crimes at the time.

Kepiro lived in Argentina from 1948 to 1996.

He was spotted in 2006 in Budapest by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center, which informed Hungarian authorities.