Two defendants now face longer sentences for their role in the February 2023 Antifa attacks in Budapest, when a group of the far-left activists, known as the Hammer Gang, brutally beat eight random people on the streets of Budapest. The Antifa criminals believed their targets to be members of a far-right demonstration, resulting in serious injuries for some of the victims.
The prosecutor’s office is appealing against their suspended prison sentences, seeking to disregard the suspension provision and impose a longer term to be served in prison, according to Magyar Nemzet, based on information from the Budapest Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
The first-instance court issued a non-final verdict in the case of non-binary Maja T. and her associates at the beginning of February. Maja T. was sentenced to eight years. According to the first-instance verdict, the defendants participated in violent acts in an organized manner, using a plastic-covered hammer, lead-lined rubber gloves, batons, and pepper spray.
Several of them have already been brought to trial, although current MEP Ilaria Salis escaped prosecution due to her immunity in the European Parliament.
Later, more attackers were identified, including the now convicted Maja T. The prosecutor’s office charged her with attempted assault causing danger to life within a criminal organization and attempted assault for nefarious reasons within a criminal organization.
Just days ago, a group of Antifa thugs beat 23-year-old Frenchman Quentin Deranque to death in Lyon, France, after the Catholic conservative and a friend tried to protect a group of feminist activists protesting migrant violence from them. Nine have been arrested by authorities in that case, including a member of the far-left political party La France Insoumise.
There have since been more urgent calls in France to declare Antifa a terrorist group. Last September, Hungary officially declared it as such.
