DENMARK: UNITED STATES (U.S.) NEO-NAZI LEADER GARY LAUCK LEAVES COURT FOLLOWING APPROVAL OF REQUEST BY GERMANY FOR HIS EXTRADITION.

Record ID: 337722

  • Title: DENMARK: UNITED STATES (U.S.) NEO-NAZI LEADER GARY LAUCK LEAVES COURT FOLLOWING APPROVAL OF REQUEST BY GERMANY FOR HIS EXTRADITION.
  • Date: 24th August 1995
  • Summary: ROSKILDE, NEAR COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (AUGUST 24, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/SV COURT EXTERIORS (3 SHOTS) 0.13 2. SV UNITED STATES (U.S.) NEO-NAZI LEADER GARY LAUCK LEAVING COURT,SAYING DEMOCRACY IS FORBIDDEN IN GERMANY. SAYS HE WILL HAVE A PROBLEM IN GERMANY (AND CROSSES HIS FINGERS FOR LUCK) (GERMAN) 0.30 3. SV LAUCK GETTING INTO CAR/MEDIA/ LAUCK GIVING NAZI SALUTE/ GV CAR DRIVES OFF (4 SHOTS) 1.24 4. GV/SV/ZOOM COURT INTERIORS (3 SHOTS) 1.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 8th September 1995 13:00
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  • Location: ROSKILDE, NEAR COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
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  • Country: Denmark
  • Reuters ID: LVA7OQW9MSUP3ESB7TVMZZ9FNSJM
  • Story Text: The Danish Supreme Court on Thursday approved a German request for the extradition of American neo-Nazi leader Gary Lauck, who is suspected of smuggling banned hate literature into Germany for two decades.

    A court spokesman was unable to give a date for the extradition of Lauck to Hamburg where a German state prosecutor has brought charges on five counts of Nazi propaganda activity.

    A defence lawyer said Lauck, from Nebraska in the United States, lived in a fantasy world and his writings were scarcely to be taken seriously. But the court unanimously affirmed extradition rulings by two other courts.

    As Lauck left the courthouse he said he would have a difficult time in Germany as democracy was forbidden there. Walking to a waiting car he gave a Nazi salute.

    While Germany strictly bans the use or publication of Nazi symbols and ideology, Denmark, the United States, Canada and other countries have more liberal laws which have been exploited by neo-Nazis to publish beyond the reach of German police.

    While spreading Nazi propaganda is not illegal, the Danish courts said Lauck's written and verbal attacks on Jews broke a Danish law against incitement of racial hatred.


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