Bavarian prosecutors say a German neo-Nazi who
spent seven years on the run until he was captured in Portugal has been
extradited to Germany to serve his prison sentence.
The Nuremberg-Fuerth prosecutor’s office said
Wednesday that 54-year-old Gerhard Ittner was flown to Germany on
Tuesday and will begin serving his 33-month sentence for slander, racial
hatred and other crimes.
Ittner was convicted in 2005, but fled before
he could be imprisoned. He was captured by Portuguese authorities in
April and has been in custody there since then.
Bavarian officials say the one-time member of
the now-defunct German People’s Union party was a known Holocaust denier
who used the Internet to spread far-right propaganda between 2002 and
2004.
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