Brandenburg on the Havel / Cottbus. The neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Horst Mahler has served his more than ten-year prison sentence for sedition. The 84-year-old was released from prison in the JVA Brandenburg an der Havel on Monday morning, a spokesman for the Brandenburg Ministry of Justice told the Evangelical Press Service (epd) on Tuesday in Potsdam. The Cottbus public prosecutor’s office is now trying to get the former lawyer, who formerly belonged to the RAF and later for a while to the NPD, back to prison.
A spokesman for the Cottbus public prosecutor’s office told the epd that Mahler had been charged in further incitement to hatred. In this context, a new arrest warrant had been applied for, but this was rejected by the Potsdam Regional Court. An appeal against the rejection of the arrest warrant was lodged with the Potsdam district court on Tuesday.
After previous convictions in 2009, Mahler was sentenced to several years imprisonment for sedition by the Munich Regional Court and then to another sentence by the Potsdam Regional Court. Because he was last registered near Berlin, he was imprisoned in the JVA Brandenburg an der Havel.
Admission as a lawyer revoked
At the end of September it became known that Mahler, after serving his sentence, would be released on October 27, subject to strict conditions. The Munich public prosecutor had applied for five years of supervision. Mahler should be “prohibited from publishing text and language contributions on the Internet or in other media” if he does not inform the state security at the Brandenburg State Criminal Police Office in advance and present the texts there. Publications on the website previously used by him should be completely prohibited.
The Ministry of Justice in Potsdam said that the Munich II public prosecutor’s office, for which Brandenburg has taken over the execution of the prison sentence, is responsible for all other questions in connection with the prison sentence that has been served, such as the requested conduct supervision. The Munich public prosecutor’s office did not want to comment on the case at the moment. Enforcement proceedings are not public, said a spokeswoman for the epd.
Mahler has served his prison sentence for numerous incidents of sedition with interruptions in Brandenburg an der Havel. A suspension of the remaining sentence on probation planned in 2015 was lifted again.
During a suspension of execution due to incapacity for detention, Mahler traveled to Hungary to apply for asylum there, was then extradited to Germany and detained again. The Berlin Bar Association withdrew his admission to the bar a few years ago. (epd)
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