Marla Svenja Liebich: After arrest – right-wing extremist refuses extradition to Germany | EUROtoday

Convicted German right-wing extremist Marla Svenja Liebich, who was arrested within the Czech Republic, refuses to be extradited to Germany. This was confirmed by senior public prosecutor Dennis Cernota from the Halle public prosecutor’s workplace. The MDR had beforehand reported.

The Halle public prosecutor’s workplace acquired the knowledge from the Czech authorities, Cernota stated. In the subsequent step, a Czech court docket should now determine whether or not Liebich ought to be extradited to Germany. It is at the moment not potential to foretell how lengthy it will take.

After a months-long manhunt in Europe, Liebich was arrested just a few days in the past in Schönbach close to Asch (Czech Republic) and brought into police custody. The public prosecutor’s workplace then introduced that it might submit an software for extradition. If he’s extradited, Liebich shall be taken to Chemnitz. From this level on, the Saxon judiciary could be accountable.

Liebich didn’t seem on the girls’s jail in Chemnitz on the finish of August to start his sentence. Liebich – then nonetheless a person with the primary title Sven – had beforehand been sentenced by the Halle district court docket in July 2023 for incitement to hatred, slander and insult to a complete jail sentence of 1 12 months and 6 months with out parole. Appeals and revisions towards the decision failed.