\u201cDay of Honour\u201d<\/a> commemoration in Budapest. The event is one of the biggest neo-Nazi rallies in Europe.<\/p>\nThe defendant was accused of attempted aggravated bodily harm causing life-threatening injuries and assault committed as part of a criminal organisation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know what verdict the prime minister of this country wants,\u201d Maja T told the court before the guilty verdict was given.<\/p>\n
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has previously designated anti-fascist groups linked to the attacks as \u201cterrorist\u201d organisations.<\/p>\n
Orban\u2019s spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs, welcomed the sentence in a message on X, branding Maja T an \u201cantifa terrorist\u201d \u2013 a reference to the left-wing protest movement.<\/p>\n
Maja T was extradited from Germany to Hungary in December 2024. Supporters of the activist have criticised detention conditions, as well as the chances for a fair trial in Hungary.<\/p>\n
Last year, Germany\u2019s Constitutional Court ruled that the extradition was unlawful because it could not be guaranteed that the defendant would not be subject to inhumane or degrading treatment in Hungarian custody.<\/p>\n
Maja T\u2019s father, Wolfram Jarosch, said the sentence confirmed his \u201cfears\u201d before the hearing. \u201cThis was a political show trial,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The conviction can be appealed.<\/p>\n
Far-right protest<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Maja T was one of 19 members of a multinational far-left group that travelled to Hungary and attacked nine people, including German and Polish citizens, whom they identified as far-right extremists. Victims of the attack suffered broken bones and head injuries.<\/p>\n
The annual rally in the Hungarian capital marks the failed attempt by Nazi and allied Hungarian soldiers to break out of Budapest during the Red Army\u2019s siege of the city in 1945.<\/p>\n
A number of people accused of participating in the 2023 \u201cDay of Honour\u201d attacks have been tried in Hungary and Germany. One woman received a five-year prison sentence in Germany.<\/p>\n
Italy and France have refused to surrender two suspects to Hungary, with courts in both countries citing the risk of \u201cinhumane treatment\u201d in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maja T was part of a group that attacked participants at Budapest\u2019s \u2018Day of Honour\u2019, a major neo-Nazi…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":566708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[356,440,2850,50,7237,55040,103],"class_list":["post-566707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-courts","tag-europe","tag-hungary","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-the-far-right","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116014861858864070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}