Hungary deports left-wing terrorist turned neo-Nazi to Germany

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Hungary deports left-wing terrorist turned neo-Nazi to Germany

A notorious German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier arrested last month in Hungary after skipping his jail sentence was handed over to German authorities on Tuesday, Hungarian police said.

Hungarian authorities detained Horst Mahler, 81, on May 15th in the city of Sopron near the Austrian border on the basis of a European arrest warrant.

"Hungarian police handed over (Mahler) to the German authorities on Tuesday" at Budapest's main airport, a police statement published by the MTI news agency said.

Mahler was a co-founder of the 1970s far-left Red Army Faction group who later swung violently far-right. He received two concurrent prison terms of five and six years in 2009 for disputing the Holocaust.

Denying the Holocaust is a crime in Germany.

Continued: https://www.thelocal.de/20170613/hungary-deports-left-wing-terrorist-turned-neo-nazi-to-germany