The Budapest Regional Court of Appeal found the defendants in the “Antifa case” guilty in a final ruling announced Wednesday. The defendants attacked people they considered far-right extremists in Budapest in February 2023, causing serious injuries.
The appellate court slightly reduced the sentences of two of the defendants. Of the defendants, only German national Simeon Ravi Trux (alias Maja T.), the fourth defendant, was present when the verdict was announced. The court reduced his sentence from eight years in prison, imposed at first instance, to seven years. The sentence of fifth defendant Gabriele M., who is currently in Italy, was reduced from seven years to six years. At the same time, the court ruled that neither defendant would be eligible for parole. The sentence of third defendant Anna M., who is currently in Germany, was upheld. She had been sentenced at first instance by the Budapest Regional Court to two years in prison, suspended for five years.
The first defendant, Italian national Ilaria Salis, is currently protected by parliamentary immunity after being elected to the European Parliament.
A verdict had previously been handed down in the case of second defendant Tobias E., a German national, and he has already been transferred to the German authorities.
The foreign defendants, who were members of a far-left extremist organization, carried out five attacks in Budapest between February 9 and 11, 2023, targeting people they considered far-right. Nine people were injured in the attacks, six of them seriously.
Géza Szalai, the judge presiding over the case, at a hearing in the Antifa trial at the Budapest Regional Court of Appeal on September 18, 2026. Photo: MTI/Lakatos Péter
At first instance, the Budapest Regional Court primarily convicted the defendants of attempted grievous bodily harm causing a life-threatening injury, committed as part of a criminal organization. The prosecution appealed for harsher sentences, while the defense appealed for acquittal or reduced sentences.
In its final ruling, the Court of Appeal amended the first-instance judgment by changing the legal classification of the conduct of the fourth and fifth defendants from co-perpetration to aiding and abetting. It also removed references to the offenses having been committed as part of a criminal organization from the names of the offenses. However, Judge Géza Szalai said
the Court of Appeal had imposed the sentences “on the basis that they were committed as part of a criminal organization.”
This distinction is relevant when determining the applicable sentence.
During the court’s reasoning, it was stated that the appellate court had found no procedural irregularities in the first-instance proceedings. The trial court had conducted a detailed evidentiary process, heard witnesses and experts, and reviewed camera footage. All evidence necessary to establish the facts of the case had been available. There had been no violation of the law that would have warranted excluding evidence, and the appellate court found no deficiencies in the investigation of the facts. On this basis, there was no obstacle to reviewing the first-instance judgment. Szalai also said that the appellate court did not consider the defense motions seeking to overturn the first-instance ruling to be well-founded.
The judge said that
while the fact that the perpetrators did not cause fatal or life-threatening injuries constituted a mitigating circumstance, aggravating factors included the organized nature of the attacks and the use of ideologically motivated violence against randomly selected people believed to be far-right.
The attacks had been planned in advance, and the perpetrators had practiced carrying them out beforehand, the judge noted. He also emphasized that Maja T. had shown no remorse and had continued to espouse his ideology throughout the proceedings, including in his final statement to the court. At the end of the hearing, the defendant requested that he be allowed to serve her sentence outside Hungary.
Via MTI, Featured image: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
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