Sylvia Stolz
Sylvia Stolz ( born August 6, 1963 in Munich) is a former German lawyer from Ebersberg, which is associated with neo-Nazism. She was known as a lawyer prominent right-wing extremists such as Horst Mahler, Germar Rudolf, Ernst Zündel and Rigolf Hennig and as Holocaustleugnerin. She herself was sentenced, inter alia, for sedition and obstruction of justice.
Participation in criminal trials
As a defender of, among other things because of Holocaust denial accused Ernst Zündel made pride for quite a stir, because they always, appeals and declarations with inciting Content provided or gave. The two aldermen they had announced on conviction Zündels the death penalty because "people's slander and aiding the enemy ". She was then excluded from the process. Pride was then carried by police officers from the court because they had opposed the arrangement. The exclusion was confirmed by the Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe on 31 March 2006. It found pride had " abused their defensive role ," the process by "process foreign behavior " sabotaged " partially discharged punishable Nazi content ," speech despite the ban by the presiding judge statements.
In the trial of Horst Mahler for showing the Hitler salute proudly held as a criminal defense a more than three-hour plea, in which they again repeatedly denied the Holocaust and Nazism praised.
Criminal proceedings against Sylvia Stolz
In March 2007, the Mannheim prosecutor brought charges against pride for incitement, coercion, attempted obstruction of justice and use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations. Simultaneously, a prohibition was aimed at. The trial began on 15 November 2007 before the District Court of Mannheim. Pride was accused, among other things, to have denied the Holocaust. The procedure was initially recognized by the end of January 2008.
The defender Sylvia Stolz, Ludwig Bock, argued with regard to the freedom of expression. He had previously represented many right-wing extremists and worked in that capacity with pride.
On 14 January 2008, the Mannheim Regional Court sentenced to three and a half years in prison pride, as well as a five-year employment ban was pronounced against them, because they have abused their profession for the dissemination of revisionist theses.
Pride appealed against the judgment revision. In December 2008, the verdict was partially and remanded for sentencing to a new trial in the district court; However, the imposed prohibition had on hand by the decision of the Federal Court. In May 2009, the Mannheim Regional Court sentenced for incitement to three years and three months in prison - ie three months or less than originally. The prohibition was continued, which pride five years her career as a lawyer was not allowed. Your new revision of the Federal High Court in October 2009 rejected as "manifestly unfounded". On 13 April 2011 she was released from custody.
In November 2012 pride came at the invitation Ivo Saseks, the head of the so-called Anti-Censorship Coalition ( ACC ), on at an event this in Chur. Because they should have there again denied the Holocaust and promoted right-wing, filed a complaint against a lawyer Bernese pride and the organizer Sasek for alleged violations of the Swiss anti-racism law.
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Pride was the right-wing extremists and Holocaust deniers Horst Mahler romantically involved.