SYND 21 1 78 MOVEMENT FOR JUDICIAL ACTIONHOLD PRESS CONFERENCE IN PARIS

(20 Jan 1978) Spokesman for the "Movement For Judicial Action "Michel Tubiana and French Professor of Law Robert Boure hold a press conference to highlight the case of the Red Army faction's lawyer, Klaus Croissant, in Germany.
In Stuttgart, West Germany, Irmgard Moller, member of the Red Army Faction or the "Baader - Meinhoff" gang, told a commission of inquiry that she had not tried to commit suicide. She had been found wounded in her cell on the same morning that other two members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan Carl Raspe were found dead. She said her injuries were the result of an attack on her.
Meanwhile, a lawyer of Klaus Croissant, who is still in detention in a Stuttgart prison after charges of aiding the Red Army Faction, said her client's health was in a very dangerous condition because of the imprisonment. Croissant's trial will start in March.
Tubiana, who is an official spokesman of the "Movement For Judicial Action" described the prison conditions of Croissant's detention: there was no privacy in his cell, and there was constant supervision. Tubiana said people go in and out of his cell every ten minutes so that Croissant can never be alone. This had happened to other prisoners in a similar situation and the effects of such detention, he added, were well known and even conceded by prison doctors. Tubiana said that such conditions led to grave psychological disorders among the prisoners.
Robert Boure, who is a professor of law and a specialist on the subject of "berufverbot" - the German word for banning professionals from public jobs who hold views contrary to the constitution of the state. The right to do this, he said was resulting into a repressive measure operated against those who held opinions which were not approved by the state, and Croissant had come in this category for being the lawyer of the Baader Meinhoff group. He cited various other examples where this had been used to ban or expel people from the civil service

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