WARSAW TRIAL ENDS
FRENCHMEN SENTENCED (Rec. 11.20 a.m.) WARSAW, Feb. 14. Andre Robineau, the 25-year-old French Consular official, was to-day sentenced at Szczecin to 12 years’ imprisonment for spying. Gaston Druet, a 46-year-old French radio mechanic, who admitted working with Robineau, was sentenced to 10 years’, imprisonment. Bronislaw Klimczak (36), a pre-war Polish intelligence officer, was sentenced to death. He had pleaded guilty to collecting information on Polish and Soviet military units. Stefan Pielacki, another Pole, aged 24, was sentenced to life imprisonment. He told the court he recruited six other informers to supply him with military information. Two other Poles wtfre sentenced to 15 and eight years’ imprisonment. The prosecution asked for long-term sentences for Robineau and Druet and death sentences for Pielacki and Klimczak. —Reuter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 104, 15 February 1950, Page 5
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