Horst Mahler, German Holocaust Denier, Is Arrested in Hungary
By SEWELL CHANMAY 15, 2017
LONDON — An 81-year-old former Marxist urban guerrilla who became a far-right extremist
and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for Holocaust denial was arrested in Hungary on Monday after illegally leaving Germany, officials said.
Hungarian officials initially said that they did not know about any arrest or asylum request, adding
that if Mr. Mahler applied for asylum, he would be rejected, because he is a citizen of a European Union member country — namely, Germany.
In the late 1960s, he became prominent in leftist circles
and represented, among others, the Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld, the left-wing activist Fritz Teufel, the student leader Rudi Dutschke and Andreas Baader, a leader of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, later known as the Red Army Faction.
The German news media reported that the extremist, Horst Mahler, had announced he was seeking asylum in Hungary, where the rightist government of Prime Minister
Viktor Orban has repeatedly provoked the European Union with crackdowns on the press, political opponents, refugees, judges and academic institutions.
SLOVENIA CROATIA ITALY MAY 15, 2017
On Monday afternoon, however, the police in Hungary announced
that Mr. Mahler had been detained in Sopron, a city in the west of the country, near the border with Austria.
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