(14 Apr 2009) HEADLINE: Demjanjuk back home after deportation halted
CAPTION: Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk has been released from federal custody just hours after immigration officers removed him from his home to be deported, authorities said. (April 14)
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Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk ((dem-YAHN-yuk) arrived back home in this pick-up truck Tuesday -- shortly after a 3 judge federal appeals panel issued a stay halting his deportation.
Only hours earlier, a group of immigration officers removed him from his home in his wheelchair in a bid to send him back to Germany to face charges he helped kill thousands of inmates at a Nazi camp in Poland during World War II.
His former son-in-law -- who is also the family's spokesman -- says they are relieved by the new development in the case.
we've been fighting for...me for 27 years...the family for 30 years...we're going to continue to fight.
The U.S. Government says it will supervise Demjanjuk through electronic monitoring -- and continue its legal battle in court.
Meanwhile, the appeals panel says it will consider Demjanjuk's motion to reopen the case and hear his argument that traveling back to Germany in his current medical condition would be torturous.
I imagine it's going to go quite some time...this could go end tomorrow...and then again it could go on for years....(cut)..We're just very pleased the at the sixth circuit saw that something might not be right here...
Demjanjuk denies he was ever a Nazi guard -- instead, the Ukrainian native claims he was held by Germans as a prisoner of war.
He came to the U.S. following the war as a refugee.
However, the Simon Weisenthal Center -- a Jewish human rights group in Los Angeles -- disagrees and says it's confident he'll face justice once he has been deported to Germany.
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