Summary of Linda Kinstler's Come to This Court and Cry

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#1 This book is a crime scene investigation of the assassination of Herbert Cukurs. It’s subtitled El Mossad y La Ejecución de Herberts Cukurs en Uruguay. It is written by a federal judge and journalist, Linng Cardozo, and accompanied by a journalist, Marcelo Silva.

#2 The book is a crime scene investigation of the assassination of Herbert Cukurs.

#3 The book is a crime scene investigation of the assassination of Herbert Cukurs. It is written by a federal judge and journalist, Linng Cardozo, and accompanied by a journalist, Marcelo Silva.

#4 In the book, I wrote about the assassination of Herbert Cukurs, and how it was connected to the Nuremberg trials.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350000276

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#1

I visited the Uruguayan Police Academy, where I met with Judge Marcelo Silva, who was full of legal aphorisms. He could not let go of the case.

#2

The murder of Herberts Cukurs was an anomaly in Uruguay in 1965. The police received a phone call from a journalist with a wire service in Germany, who asked if they had dispatched anyone to investigate a murder in Shangrilá, a small neighborhood of bungalows on the outskirts of the city.

#3

On 6 March 1965, Otero and a small team of policemen arrived at the house identified in the telegram. They found a key jammed in the front door, the entrance locked. They peered through the windows and saw blood on the walls and floors.

#4

I visited the Hotel Victoria Plaza, where the Israeli agents had stayed, the restaurant in the resort town of Punta del Este where the agents allowed themselves to unwind, if only for a moment, and the National Police Academy, where the crime scene evidence remained.

#5

The Cukurs case is just a curiosity of Uruguayan history. In other accounts of the murder, including the assassin’s own telling, it was the text of the telegram, the verdict announcing the reason for his execution, that was found on Cukurs’s body.

#6

The judges had to remember that it was not just lawyers, journalists, and military police staring back at them in the Nuremberg courtroom, but all of humanity. The judges had to imagine that mankind itself stood before them, crying out a single, simple plea: These are our laws, let them prevail.

#7

The police archive was the last stop on our tour of Montevideo. The trunk had not been adequately preserved, and only the top of it remained. It was a shame that history could be so casually discarded.

#8

The idea of the modern nation,