Argentine general got three years in prison for saying he doesn't trust Jews
An Argentine court has sentenced 78-year-old General Guillermo Suarez Mason to three and a half years in prison for making anti-Semitic remarks. In a 1996 magazine interview, Mason stated that he did not trust Jews and was suspicious of them. The judge at the trial called these words "discrimination against the Jewish community," according to the BBC News website.
Mason played one of the significant roles during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. A number of charges have been brought against him in different countries. In 2000, an Italian court found Mason guilty of the kidnapping and murder of eight Italian citizens and sentenced him in absentia to life imprisonment.
The German authorities accuse the general of killing German student Elisabeth Kesemann, who was kidnapped in 1977. In addition, Mason is under investigation in Argentina on charges of kidnapping children who were taken away from their parents and then given for adoption to the families of the military and police.