Berlin, Germany (Weltexpress). So now a brutal thug who, out of fear of his peers, declared himself a girl to avoid imprisonment is being stylised as a hero. And praised as an ‘anti-fascist’ who must be protected from persecution. And brought back from Hungary at all costs.
So, back to Simeon T., known as ‘Maja’. It’s embarrassing enough that we have to comment on this again. But since this story has now made it into the Tagesschau news programme…
Let’s repeat the facts: A group of Germans calling themselves anti-fascists (but who, as their behaviour showed, are not) travelled to Hungary because a neo-Nazi meeting was supposed to take place there. However, the Hungarian authorities banned the meeting. Whereupon this group roamed the area and ambushed random people, using telescopic batons and hammers (which is why they were nicknamed ‘the hammer gang’). At least one of these attacks was caught on video. The victim was attacked from behind, several people against one, beaten and kicked, even while lying on the ground. In other words, they were treated in a manner that would be questionable even if it had been in self-defence after an attack. But it wasn’t.
The group then calmly returned to Germany, proud of their actions. However, the individual participants were eventually identified and criminal proceedings were initiated in both Germany and Hungary. An administrative offence ensured that Simeon T., one of the more active thugs, was extradited to Hungary. And now there are complaints across the media about how poor Simeon ‘Maja’ T. is in a Hungarian prison.
After the extradition, I took a closer look at the case and came to the following conclusion: “So we’re talking about a 23-year-old guy who, with a weak political justification, went around abroad fighting like a British hooligan at his national team’s away game, but claims to have done so out of noble political motives and even demands to be treated like a girl. (…) The only thing that’s really bad is that this shabby hooligan behaviour, coupled with whining, is then regarded by many Germans as anti-fascism. This drags through the mud the memory of tens of thousands of honest anti-fascists who gave their lives in the fight against Nazism in Germany and for Germany.”
It should also be added that such an attack from behind by a superior force would be considered dishonourable even among hooligans. And the girl thing? That’s particularly disgusting. First acting like a rough guy, which is exactly what is meant by ‘toxic masculinity,’ and then suddenly discovering the princess on the pea inside when it comes to taking a punch and not just dishing it out?
Anyone who is capable of attacking a person unprovoked from behind with blunt instruments in a manner that risks the death of the victim should also be able to tolerate a few cockroaches and bedbugs. Because no, this level of immediate, uninhibited, documented physical violence does not come over a person like a cold. It is there beforehand and it is there afterwards. It can certainly be overcome under certain circumstances, but not by calling yourself ‘Maja’ and pretending to be a girl.
‘If convicted, he faces up to 24 years in prison,’ reports the Tagesschau, indulging in the most heartfelt sympathy; when else has a politician from the Left been quoted at length at the end of a report and even used as a cue for the last sentence? Martin Schirdewan must have popped open a bottle of champagne.
‘Maja T. has “the right to a trial under the rule of law and humane conditions of detention”. Neither of these are guaranteed in Hungary under the government of right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.’
It was clear from the outset that this had little to do with anti-fascism. After all, the most dangerous concentrations of real Nazis (apart from those in suits and ties) are not in Hungary, but one country further, in Ukraine. But how would the whole story have ended if Simeon T. had tried something like this there? At a memorial march for the SS Galicia, for example?
Apart from the fact that he would have actually put his life in danger there, and no one would have asked him if he was a girl, even in the best-case scenario, it is inconceivable that the entire media mob, including the Tagesschau, would have been overflowing with sympathy, as if he couldn’t hurt a fly (which has already been proven highly unlikely). Strangely enough, it is the crime scene, Hungary, that makes this very ordinary, dangerous brawling somehow not so serious. It can happen that someone smashes someone else’s skull with a hammer, can’t it? That’s no reason to lock him up in a solitary cell…
No, it is above all the fact that the story can be used to construct an indictment against Hungary that elicits this bizarre affection. And, of course, that any form of ‘gender dysphoria’ signals that this is one of us, a noble European.
This activates a pattern as if it were about the prisoners of the RAF in the 1970s. Although, of course, the mainstream reacted completely differently back then, precisely because, from a historical perspective, the entire development of the RAF cannot be separated from the lack of confrontation with the Nazi past of the Western republics. Many on the left, as it was still accurately described at the time, were aware of this: violence born of despair over the silence surrounding countless crimes. Its political justification, its goal, may not have been shared, but its origins were understandable because it was a shared pain.
And Simeon ‘Maja’ T., when you look at his behaviour and that of his father, undoubtedly a child from a middle-class home who treated himself to a trip into the world of brute violence (or perhaps several, who knows), always with a sure instinct for who you can beat up and who you can’t, and above all where and when? What was he looking for on the day of this attack in Budapest? There was far more master race mentality at play than anti-fascism, and the girl thing confirms that. Poor German girl. Yes, isn’t it funny how suddenly a nationality that otherwise plays no role is claimed?
And isn’t it funny how the bourgeois apparatus is willing to nurture these pseudo-anti-fascists? I still remember the tone of the German press during the RAF hunger strikes, or during Bobby Sands’ hunger strike; there was no sympathy in the Tagesschau. And anyone who still knows what anti-fascism really means, who above all has some idea of how the morality of Nazi thugs and SS henchmen differs from that of the Nazis (oh yes, the Red Front Fighters’ League would have got rid of such a creature very quickly), should instinctively look for the mistake, if only because the Tagesschau is making Simeon T. a topic of discussion.
Legally speaking, yes, the man could file a civil suit against the Free State of Saxony. Because they have now actually messed up the extradition. But whether the right hand of the German justice system knows what the left hand is doing or not is of no concern to the Hungarians. The moment he is in Hungarian custody, Hungarian law applies, as is the case in sovereign states.
It’s astonishing in Germany. A man who really fought against Nazis, risking his own life in Donbass, is on trial for ‘membership of a terrorist organisation’ because the militias that were formed to protect the inhabitants of Donbass from Ukrainian Nazis are considered terrorists by the German government. Meanwhile, another man who, outnumbered, ambushed and attacked people in Hungary in SA style is considered an ‘anti-fascist’ and must be protected at all costs, as Katrin Göring-Eckart of the Green Party put it, from ‘solitary confinement, disproportionate measures and politically charged justice’.
Incidentally, Göring-Eckart, who is also one of those who likes to cozy up to Ukronazis, calls for Taurus missiles for Kiev and shouts ‘Slawa Ukraini’ in the Bundestag, would not even have shaken hands with a real anti-fascist. That’s just the way it is. Simeon ‘Maja’ T. is a textbook example of a fascist disguised as an anti-fascist, which is why the entire media landscape treats him as one of their own, while real anti-fascists are, at best, ‘Russian agents.’
The conclusion I drew last year still stands. Except that it is no longer just the behaviour of Simeon ‘Maja’ T. that is dragging the memory of honest anti-fascists through the mud. He is now joined by the German mainstream media, the Greens (of course) and the rest of the left, which can no longer find its way out of NATO’s rectum. Anyone who wants to know what real anti-fascists are should look at Georgi Dimitroff’s appearance in the Reichstag fire trial, or at the Scholl siblings, Olga Benario or Ernst Thälmann. And reserve the label and solidarity for those who deserve it.
