Attila Hildmann in front of the Reichstag, May 2020 Photo: REUTERS/Christian Mang
From BZ/dpa
According to the Berlin public prosecutor’s office, the right-wing conspiracy theorist Attila Hildmann will not be extradited by Turkey.
This was communicated to the public prosecutor’s office by the Federal Office of Justice, said authority spokesman Sebastian Büchner on Thursday of the German Press Agency on request. The Turkish embassy informed Germany that Hildmann had Turkish citizenship and would therefore not be extradited.
The public prosecutor’s office in Berlin has long been investigating Hildmann, who describes himself as “ultra-right” and a conspiracy preacher.
It’s about hate speech, the suspicion of public incitement to commit crimes and resistance to law enforcement officials. The former author of vegan cookbooks had been attracting attention on the Telegram messenger service since the first months of the corona pandemic with his increasingly blatant hatred of Jews.
He has been on the run since the end of December 2020 and is hiding in Turkey. There is an international arrest warrant against him. This will remain, said Büchner.