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German Neo-Nazi Seeks Asylum in US
by VICKI SMITH
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) -- A neo-Nazi wanted in Germany for violating
parole in a murder case is asking for asylum in the United States,
arguing the government in his homeland will persecute him for his
political views.
Hendrik Albert Victor Mobus, 24, appeared in federal court Thursday in
an attempt to block his expected transfer to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service. His lawyer expects the INS to deport Mobus.
U.S. Magistrate John Kaull put off a decision on the INS issue until
lawyers file briefs in the next three weeks. Mobus remains in jail in
West Virgina.
Mobus, at 16, murdered a ''non-Aryan'' teen-ager in 1994 and was
sentenced as a juvenile and paroled in 1998. He fled to the United
States when German officials tried to revoke his parole.
In his plea for asylum, the fugitive challenged the German government's
assertion that he committed crimes while on parole.
The alleged crimes include a public declaration that he would never
surrender to authorities, and a public statement that the murder wasn't
a crime because the victim ''did not fit the picture of the German
race.''
Assistant U.S. Attorney Zelda Wesley argued that the magistrate lacks
the authority to stop an INS deportation order.
Mobus entered the United States under a program that allowed him to stay in the country for 90 days. That period expired in March.
He arrived in West Virginia in June at a white supremacist compound.
Federal marshals arrested him after watching activity at the compound
for several weeks.
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