European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 18, -1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 dec or not dec Danes vote by Jan m. Olsen. The associated press Copenhagen Denmark a like Shakespeare a indecisive Hamlet modern Danes Are asking themselves whether a to be or not to be a part of a closer european Inion. Their a not last june halted Progress toward giving the european Community a common currency and citizenship by 1999 As Well As a Central Bank and defense policy. Today the Danes vote again on the same treaty but with exemptions allowing them to opt out of the agreements major provisions. Britain has postponed its ratification vote in parliament until after the danish referendum and the treaty cannot go into effect unless All 12 Community nations ratify it. Last june a rejection of the treaty hinged on 46,259 ballots less than 1 percent of the votes. A v today a decision by 3.977 million eligible voters �?13,000 More than last year because of newly eligible 18-year-Olds a could be just As close. Grethe Ingerslev a Saleswoman who voted a a not last year fears that the ecu. Reau Cracy will interfere with. Denmark a social welfare policies and that the Trade bloc will become a military Power. A but i fear a second Rojec Tion will be very harmful for Denmark economically. I done to think we can afford that. Id better vote a yes a a a she said expressing the ambivalence Felt by Many Danes. A recent government report said rejection could Force Denmark out of the dec or Hurt the Economy and jobs by denying Danes Access to More Liberal Cross Border Trade and financing. Polls last week showed support for the treaty hovering at 50 percent or below while the 15 percent of undecided voters shifted slightly toward the opposition which ranged around 32 to 34 percent. A about 5 percent say they wont vote. The treaty failed last year by 50.7 to 49.3 percent. The a a not Side argues that the exemptions won in a december dec Summit in Edinburgh Scotland Are not legally  this month a memo by an dec lawyer saying exemptions arc not legally binding was leaked to the British press. A i feel the exemptions Are nothing but a smoke screen the. European bureaucrats arc hiding behind ready to fool us a said an opponent Hanne Christensen. In Michael Peters front and Lars Christiansen sit in the courtroom in Schleswig of monday charged with the murder of three turks last year. Schleswig Germany a two right Wing extremists went on trial monday on charges of killing three turks last november in a firebombing that shocked German authorities into cracking Down on Neo nazi violence. One suspect Lars Christiansen 19, has denied throwing firebombs that killed the two turkish girls and a turkish grandmother at an apartment in the North German City of Molln. Michael Peters 25, has admitted his role in the attack. Prosecutors say he led a gang that celebrated Adolf hitlers birthday. Both youths Are charged with three counts of murder attempted murder and arson. They could face life in prison. The firebombing killed Yeliz Arslan 10 Ayse Yil Maz 14 and Yeliza grandmother 51-year-old Bahidj Arslan. It was the deadliest Neo nazi attack since the violence began shortly after German unification in 1990. More than 2,000 far right attacks were carried out last year resulting in 17 deaths. Prosecutors say Peters and Christiansen set fire to a shelter for foreign refugees just after Midnight and half an hour later firebombed the House where the three turks died. Between the attacks according to prosecutors. Peters called police and said a a House is burning on Ratze bitter failures had dogged life of hostage taker at Paris apr Eric Schmitt left behind few clues about Why he strapped explosives to his body and took 21 children hostage in their Nursery school but a picture emerges of a Man frustrated by failures in love and business. He was killed with three bullets to the head by police commandos who entered the school saturday morning to free the six girls who still remained hostage. The others had been released earlier in the two Day siege. Schmitt who called himself a a Hbl for a human bomb a had demanded $18.5 million and a getaway car. He claimed to be interested Only in the Ransom but made Little reference to Money As the talks dragged on. Near the end he became irritable and delirious after two Days without sleep. The commandos entered the school after he began to doze. The 42-year-old Frenchman born in Algeria was described by former neighbors and colleagues As quiet and polite. He had been hounded by personal failures. Divorced and childless he sold a failing electronics shop in suburban Paris in 1987 and saw his computer business in Southern France go bankrupt in 1991. Schmitt was Laid off last Spring from a Job at the state owned electronics firm Thomson and had been living since with his parents in the Southern town of Jeziers. His brother Jean Pierre told police that Schmitt had handled unemployment badly. A Friend who would Only identify herself As Cathy said Schmitt was deeply attracted to a Young brazilian woman he met while fishing but was too shy to Tell her. She drifted out of his life after three months. But no one could explain Why Schmitt masked and armed with 21 Sticks of dynamite took 21 children Ages 3 and 4, and their teacher captive on thursday. The end of the ordeal in the affluent suburb of Neuilly sur Seine was followed by a combination of Relief and soul searching across the nation. Some newspapers wondered whether France was becoming like the United states. A in America this has already happened. Kidnappers have taken children hostage in school buses. Yes but that was America. Its a country of extreme violence a be journal do Dimanche said in an editorial. A your country has problems but there was a red line a line that our culture our morality and maturity forbade crossing.�?�. A a Schmitt had no police record. He served from 1967 to 1974 As a noncommissioned officer in the French army where he is believed to have Learned How to use explosives. He had planted the dynamite Sticks at the doors and Corners of the classroom and on himself. Authorities said Schmitt exploded a bomb in a Neuil Dpi id r by parking lot May 8. It caused no injuries. Laurence Dreyfus 30, the first year teacher who stayed with her pupils throughout the ordeal and told them the gunman was playing a game remained in the Countryside sunday with her family. The government awarded the legion of Honor Frances highest award to Dreyfus and to Evelyne Lambert the 25-Vear-old paediatrician who helped care for the children during the siege. Following police instructions Lambert apparently was Able to disarm some of the dynamite. Burger Street. Hail Hitler a he made a similar Call to the fire station after he and Christiansen firebombed the second Home prosecutors  said he became a right Wing extremist in 1988. He listened to Neo nazi records wore jackboots and shouted anti foreigner slogans with other extremists. But he contended he had never Hurt anyone and quit the Neo nazi scene in 1991. Swastikas and the German Imperial Flag were found in Christiansen a apartment after his arrest. A i decorated my apartment with these things but that was just a game a Christiansen said As Peters looked sourly at the judges. Christiansen has let his hair grow and dropped the boots and leather look since his arrest shortly after the Molln firebombing. A he wore a purple jacket and flannel shirt in court. Faruk Arslan father of Yeliz Arslan and Nazim Arslan the widower of Zahide Arslan looked on silently during his testimony. The trial expected to last until the end of june is taking place in Schleswig Holstein state court in this Baltic port. Bulletproof Glass separated the main courtroom from onlookers and the press. Reporters were searched before entering. German police break up Gypsy demonstration Berlin up a police used Force sunday to prevent about 200 gypsies who were protesting the world War ii deportation of gypsies from occupying a nazi concentration memorial in Hamburg a police spokesman said. One officer was injured in the Melee As the gypsies used a extreme violence to try to break through a police cordon around Hamburg a Cue Gamme concentration Camp memorial the spokesman said. The gypsies members of the Roma National Congress announced this month that they planned to occupy the memorial sunday to Mark the 53rd anniversary of the deportation of Hamburg a gypsies by nazi authorities to concentration Camps. The inc said the Neue Gamme site was to be used As a Refuge for gypsies treated with expulsion from contemporary Germany to the former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe. Hamburg authorities had banned the planned occupation. Tens of thousands of gypsies were killed in nazi concentration Camps during the third Reich. French Painter Dies at 88 Paris apr edouard Pignon a miners son who became one of Frances Foremost painters has died. He was 88. A Friend of Pablo Picasso Pignon tried his hand at sculpture and theatrical design As Well As painting. His Post cubist works Are displayed at leading Art museums in London new York Paris and elsewhere