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...Ioannis-Dimitrio (Yanni) Poulakos...
There was no doubting the guilt of the man on trial in Cape Town last week. He was Dimitrio Tsafendas, the 48-year-old parliamentary messenger who stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to death before the eyes of scores of horrified witnesses in the House of Assembly on Sept. 6. Many of Verwoerd's loyal followers bitterly demanded the vengeance of the gallows. They did not get it. After three days of testimony by four psychiatrists, Supreme Court Justice Andries Beyers ruled that Tsafendas was insane and ordered him to be detained in prison indefinitely...
...hall at the rear of the chamber stood a large man in his late 40s. He had curly grey hair, swarthy skin and silver-capped front teeth. His name was Dimitrio Tsafendas, and he wore the uniform of a parliamentary messenger, a job for which he had been hired only a month before. Tsafendas was obviously distraught. At lunch with his fellow messengers, he had hardly touched his curry, left early without explanation. Now, as the warning bell summoned the Members of Parliament to their seats for the opening of the session, he refused to run a routine errand requested...
...Will Bring Evil." The supreme irony of it all is that Verwoerd's assassin apparently thought so too. Dimitrio Tsafendas had been a drifter who hated the world. He speaks eight languages, has traveled all over the world as a merchant seaman-and has been confined in mental hospitals in both the U.S. and Portugal. He is also a religious fanatic who has dabbled in Buddhism, read the Bible, and often quotes his favorite passage from II Kings: "Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof...
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