The Ottoman government, in response to Yusuf…
May 1840 CE
The government has set up an official investigatory commission before which representatives of the Jewish and Greek communities are ordered to present their evidence.
In mid-May, the government sends orders to release the six remaining Jewish prisoners.
On May 21, they are ceremoniously called before the court (shura) and freed under the guarantees of the elders of the Jewish community.
The Christians respond to these actions of the central government with a fresh wave of fury against the Jews so that in late May violence is in the air.
The Jews describe many cases in which they are assaulted or beaten by the Greeks, and the sons of the British and the Greek consuls are among those who beat up a number of Jews.
When the Jews complain to the governor, he orders the complainants subjected to four to five hundred blows of the bastinado.
The qadi disassociates himself from the actions of the governor, who declares that he has acted upon the demands of the consuls.
On top of that, the governor orders five other Jews arrested.
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