Tobias E, who is supposed to belong to a group around the left-wing extremist Lina E, has been extradited from Hungary to Germany. He was received by officials from the State Criminal Police of Saxony at Frankfurt Airport last Friday, the General Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Monday.
Tobias E is supposed to have been a member of an association around Lina E, which was founded in and around Leipzig in 2018. The association, which had a regional and national network, carried out violent attacks on people it considered to be part of the “right-wing scene” between 2018 and 2020.
According to the investigators, the actions were usually intensively prepared, including the surveillance of the selected victims’ daily routines in the run-up to the attacks. Tobias E is said to have participated in combat training and contributed to violent acts of the association. On January 19, 2019, the accused, along with five to six other members of the association, is said to have carried out an attack on four people in a subway tunnel at Dessau-Roßlau station, who were on their way back from a demonstration in Magdeburg on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the bombing of the city and were allegedly part of the right-wing scene.
The attackers, including Tobias E, are said to have used bludgeons to target the victims’ heads. Three of the attacked people then fell to the ground. While lying on the ground, they received kicks and further blows to the head. The victims suffered severe, potentially life-threatening injuries.
Tobias E had been in custody in Hungary for about two years before his extradition, having been sentenced to three years in prison in Budapest in the early year for carrying out attacks on participants of the right-wing extremist “Day of Honour” march with others.