Six months after the first day of the Budapest trial against three antifascists from Germany and Italy, Tobi’s sentence was set at 22 months in prison in the second instance. In addition to Tobi, another German comrade is accused of being part of a criminal association with the aim of attacking Nazis and Ilaria is accused of participation in a crime and she risks, in the worst case, a double-digit period of detention. Tobi, like Ilaria, has been in pre-trial detention for nearly sixteen months.
In a pre-trial proceeding on the first day of the trial, Tobi accepted the charge, knowing that he would not be guaranteed a fair trial. Then there was a disagreement between the court, the prosecutor and his defence lawyer about the length of Tobi’s sentence. In court, a three-year prison sentence was handed down, against which Tobi’s lawyer appealed. The prosecutor, on the other hand, demanded a higher sentence. Today’s judgment is therefore, de facto, well below what could have been feared. As Tobi has already served more than two-thirds of his sentence, during a long pre-trial detention, there is a chance that he will be able to apply for parole. The decision is up to another Hungarian court.