German Antifa terrorist Maja T, born Simeon T, has been sentenced to eight years in prison in Hungary for taking part in a series of violent street attacks in Budapest in 2023 that left multiple people seriously injured.
The verdict was delivered on Wednesday, 4 February, by the Budapest Metropolitan Court. According to the indictment, the 25-year-old German—who regularly speaks about himself in the third person and claims he is ‘neither male nor female’—was found guilty of attempted grievous bodily harm and participation in a criminal organization. The verdict is not yet final, as it can still be appealed through Hungary’s judicial process.
The Hungarian public prosecutor’s office had initially demanded a 24-year prison sentence as a ‘deterrent’. The prosecution argued that Maja T belonged to a far-left extremist group with a total of 19 members who had attacked nine people, leaving them with broken bones and head injuries.
Far-left activists appeared at the trial to support Maja T, wearing shirts bearing the word ‘Schauprozess’, the German term for a ‘sham trial’.
On 11 February 2023, an Antifa mob—consisting mostly of German and Italian nationals—attacked individuals in Budapest solely based on their assessment of the victims’ appearance as ‘far-right’. One of the most severely injured victims, László Dudog, was beaten on the head with iron bars, resulting in the ‘complete paralysis of the left side of his face’.
Among the attackers were Maja T and Ilaria Salis. Salis was detained by authorities hours after the attacks; however, she has since become a Member of the European Parliament for the Italian far-left party Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra (AVS) and is now using her immunity to avoid responsibility for the violent crime.
The trial has quickly become one of the most closely watched criminal cases in recent Hungarian history, as Maja T’s accomplice, Salis, has frequently attacked the Hungarian government, accusing the authorities of breaching fundamental rights during her detention. These claims were recently repeated by Maja T in a propaganda interview published by German public media Deutsche Welle with the intention of whitewashing the far-left terrorist.
The verdict came as we are nearing the third anniversary of the brutal attack. Since then, following US President Donald Trump’s lead, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government have moved to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.
Far-left political violence is an increasingly serious threat that societies face worldwide. Just days before the conviction of Maja T, Antifa-linked extremists clashed with Italian police, brutally beating one of them during a violent march in Turin. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, organized far-left provocateurs continue to block federal immigration officers in Minnesota from carrying out the lawful deportation of illegal migrants. The protests in Minneapolis have already resulted in two deadly casualties.
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