Horst Mahler, German Holocaust Denier, Is Arrested in Hungary<br />By SEWELL CHANMAY 15, 2017<br />LONDON — An 81-year-old former Marxist urban guerrilla who became a far-right extremist<br />and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for Holocaust denial was arrested in Hungary on Monday after illegally leaving Germany, officials said.<br />Hungarian officials initially said that they did not know about any arrest or asylum request, adding<br />that if Mr. Mahler applied for asylum, he would be rejected, because he is a citizen of a European Union member country — namely, Germany.<br />In the late 1960s, he became prominent in leftist circles<br />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.<br />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<br />Viktor Orban has repeatedly provoked the European Union with crackdowns on the press, political opponents, refugees, judges and academic institutions.<br />SLOVENIA CROATIA ITALY MAY 15, 2017<br />On Monday afternoon, however, the police in Hungary announced<br />that Mr. Mahler had been detained in Sopron, a city in the west of the country, near the border with Austria.<br />SWEDEN Baltic Sea DENMARK POLAND Berlin Brandenburg an der Havel Chojnow GERMANY CZECH REP. SLOVAKIA Munich Sopron HUNGARY AUSTRIA SWITZ.
