Name/Title
Resists Shot for Murder - Original 1947 Radiophoto Times HeraldEntry/Object ID
HM007Description
Nov 18, 1947. Charleroi, Belgium
F51076902. WATCH YOUR CREDIT. INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS SLUG (EXECUTION NO. 4)
(EXCLUSIVE)
THREE-YEAR-OLD MASS MURDER PARTLY PAID FOR CHARLEROI, BELGIUM.....A MOMENT AFTER BULLETS FROM THE RIFLES OF THE FIRING SQUAD CRASHED INTO THE BACKS OF THE HUMAN TARGETS, A PRIEST (CENTER BACKGROUND) RUNS TO THE BODIES. ANOTHER PRIEST IS AT LEFT. A T DOCTOR, WHOSE DUTY IS TO PRONOUNCE THE MEN DEAD, IS AT THE POST AT RIGHT. THE FOUR MEN WERE MEMBERS OF A GROUP OF 27 RESISTS SHOT FOR THE MURDER OF 27 CITIZENS OF COURCELLES ON AUGUST 18, 1944. SEVENTY-ONE REXISTS WERE TRIED. FORTY WERE FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCES CONFIRMED. THE 27 WERE EXEUCTED ON NOVEMBER 10 IN THE CHARLEROI POLICE STATION YARD.
W.11.18.47 (FABCOX)
NO.4 IN SEQUENCE 899-903.. SEE ALSO FS1076898-904-5
