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May 15th, 2017 | #1 |
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Left-wing terrorist turned Holocaust-denier seeking asylum in Hungary: report
Horst Mahler was sentenced to ten years in prison for incitement of hatred and Holocaust denial, but now he is asking Hungary to grant him political asylum, according to the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung.
Mahler, 81, wrote in a post published online that he had requested asylum from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán due to “political persecution”. He further explained that the “persecution” had been prompted by the publication of his written work entitled “The End of Wanderings - Thoughts on Gilad Atzmon and the Jewish people”. The work mentions British-Israeli jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, who has been accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Mahler was one of the founding members of the left-wing terror group Red Army Faction - also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group - which engaged in bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, bank robberies, and shoot-outs for three decades. SEE ALSO: Ten things to know about the Red Army Faction terrorist group He later made a dramatic swing to the far-right. The former lawyer began his prison sentence for Holocaust denial in 2009. In the summer of 2015, he received an exemption from serving his sentence due to a serious illness, and was released. Then at the end of last year, a court in Brandenburg extended his sentence because he committed further right-wing extremist crimes in prison. But in April, he reportedly fled the country to avoid his sentence. read full article at source: http://www.thelocal.de/20170515/left...hungary-report |
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