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NEO-NAZI MAY BE SENT TO GERMANY
9/12/00
The Associated Press
MORGANTOWN - A neo-Nazi fugitive wanted for violating the conditions of
his parole in a 1994 murder may be headed home to Germany, his West
Virginia attorney said.
Convicted killer Hendrik Albert Victor Mobus, 24, was turned over to
agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service sometime
Monday, then put on a flight to New York City, Elkins attorney Stephen
Jory said.
Last week, in an attempt to stave off his anticipated deportation, Mobus
asked the United States for asylum, arguing the German government wants
to persecute him for his political views.
It was not immediately clear whether the INS would grant or deny an
asylum hearing. An agency spokesman in Washington, D.C., said Monday
evening that he could provide no information about the case.
Jory, who has been representing Mobus since his arrest in Lewisburg last
month, expects immediate deportation.
"My speculation is ... they will deny his application for political
asylum based on his fugitive status," he said. "I suspect he'll be on a
plane to Germany (Monday night)."
Jory tried to stop the extradition last week, but a federal magistrate
declined to issue an order stopping the custody exchange. The absence of
such an order cleared the way for the U.S. Attorney's Office to drop the
fugitive charge and hand Mobus over to the INS.
"I knew it was an alternative they could pursue," Jory said.
In his plea for asylum, Mobus challenges the German government's charge
that he committed additional crimes while on parole for the murder of a
"non-Aryan" teenager.
Those crimes include a public declaration that he would never surrender
to authorities, as well as a public statement that the murder wasn't a
crime because his victim "did not fit the picture of the German race."
Mobus also is charged with expressing right-wing Nazi views, performing
a Nazi salute and organizing a right-wing organization in Germany and
Europe. He contends his actions are "merely an exercise of free speech."
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