The Russian press expressed great dissatisfaction over the verdict of the court in the case of three anti-Semites, Morosov. Zaicev and Alexejev, who were tried for persecuting the Jewish family Kovunovsky who lived in the same house with them.
Despite the court having established that the anti-Semites had beaten Mrs.
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Kovunovsky during their persecutions of the family, the judge decreed that the Jewish woman should pay a fine of thirty roubles. A fine of a like amount was imposed on the anti-Semites, the reason being given that this was not a case of anti-Semitism but merely a quarrel between neighbors.
The papers pointed to the persecutions which had lasted over a long period and which had the character of a systematic, anti-Semitic attack.
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