During a preliminary hearing, the 24-year-old activist -- who identifies as non-binary -- was led into a Budapest court room handcuffed and with feet shackled.
According to a court statement, the accused acted as part of a criminal organisation that “inflicted various life-threatening injuries” on the presumed neo-Nazis.
“I am accused in a country, where I do not exist as Maja,“ said the defendant in front of a packed courtroom, denouncing human rights violations in Hungary.
Outside the court house, some anti-fascist protesters gathered to demand the defendant’s release while chanting “Free Maja!” and holding up banners.
Maja T. was arrested in Germany in 2023 and handed over to Hungarian authorities after a regional court in Berlin greenlit the extradition.
The 2023 attacks happened in the days preceding the so-called annual “Day of Honour” commemoration in Budapest, where European far-right groups gather to mark a failed attempt by Nazi forces in 1945 to break out of the city during the Soviet army’s siege.
One of them, Ilaria Salis, an Italian teacher, made international headlines when she appeared in a Budapest court in 2024, with her feet shackled.
Six people suspected of participating in the attacks in Budapest turned themselves in in Germany in a bid to avoid extradition to Hungary, their lawyers said.
A second defendant in Maja T.’s case, an Italian activist named Gabriele Marchesi, was freed from prison after a Milanese court found there are risks of “inhumane and degrading treatment” in Hungarian prisons, according to Italian media reports.
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