Overview

• Twenty-five-year-old Angelos L., a known neo-Nazi, was arrested in Budapest on May 12 and extradited to Germany for detention in Lower Saxony.
• He is accused of destroying and stealing wreaths laid at the Ahlem memorial on Holocaust Remembrance Day in late January.
• Prosecutors have opened investigations into joint property damage, theft, weapons and narcotics offences and links to extremist groups.
• A search of his flat uncovered AfD documents, party flyers, Junge Nationalisten materials and a submachine gun with ammunition.
• Germany’s domestic intelligence agency classifies the AfD as right-wing extremist and the Greens have renewed calls to ban the party.