"Interpol has nothing to report here": conspiracy theorist Attila Hildmann continues to agitate in Turkey
Created: 01/03/2023 08:27
By: Matthew Schneider
Hildmann during the Corona protests.
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Which is why the anti-Semitic conspiracy narrator Attila Hildmann in Turkey can continue to hustle undisturbed despite an arrest warrant.
Berlin – Attila Hildmann is wanted on an arrest warrant – and his whereabouts in Turkey are known.
Nevertheless, the judiciary does not want to make an extradition request for Germany's most well-known conspiracy theorists.
An attempt at an explanation.
Attila Hildmann: Conspiracy theorist warns of blackout
If you want to describe the work of Attila Hildmann, the best place to look is the online shop Hexogen Outdoor & Survival, which the 41-year-old regularly advertises on his Telegram channel.
There you can find the products of the former star chef, such as vegan gummy bears (“Tasting for animal welfare”), vegetable bolognese and chilli sin carne – but also batons, crossbows and barbed wire.
A well-stocked vendor's tray for conspiracy believers, run by an NPD politician.
In hundreds of posts on his channel, Hildmann describes what people should be afraid of: "Stock up on equipment before the blackout and looting start in the FRG Gulag," he warns, "they will carry out the blackout, be prepared," he advertises an emergency battery.
Tenor of Hildmann's world view: The Federal Republic does not exist, Greens, Jews and Communists are making politics against Turks and Germans.
Attila Hildmann manages to escape abroad: International arrest warrant in Turkey without result
His statements have brought the well-known author of vegan cookbooks into the focus of the judiciary: Hildmann should be arrested for incitement to hatred, suspected public incitement to commit crimes and resistance to law enforcement officers.
But he managed – presumably through a tipster – to flee abroad.
From there he continues to sell animal-friendly gummy bears and agitates against "world Jewry".
The international arrest warrant – without result.
Hildmann remained missing.
Until October 2022, a
Stern
team tracked him down with a group of amateur detectives in the small Turkish town of Kartepe – and reported it to the authorities.
At the latest now the Turkish police should have acted according to the extradition agreement.
But Hildmann feels safe, as he writes on Telegram: "I'm an Yldirim, my real name (Hildmann was adopted, editor's note)!
Interpol knows that too, but they have nothing to report here because of 'hate speech'” (English for hate speech, editor's note).
In fact, the Turkish judiciary is apparently making no move to arrest Hildmann.
The German officials see themselves as having no chance: “However, extradition requests are not made out of the blue,” a spokesman for the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office told
Stern
.
According to the journalist Tina Kaiser, who was involved in the Hildmann search, there is reason to suspect that the Turkish government is covering for him: "He also filmed himself on trips to Istanbul and in his car, made jokes about where the civilian investigators were stayed?
It seemed like someone told him not to worry," says Tina Kaiser.
Attila Hildmann celebrates Turkish President Erdogan as a great leader
In fact, Hildmann stylizes the Turkish president as a great leader: "Erdogan is the absolute number 1 in world politics by far," Hildmann said on Telegram, Turkey under Erdogan's right-wing conservative AKP party is a bulwark against the "New World Order," a conspiracy teller popular coup scenario.
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Erdogan's wanted election helper could come at just the right time, because of the horrendous inflation rates, the president is under a lot of pressure - which he is trying to relieve with political maneuvers: Turkey is using a veto to block Sweden's and Finland's NATO accession because they refuse to extradite Erdogan's political opponents .
There are also in Germany, says the left-wing member of the Bundestag Andrej Hunko: Erdogan will try to use Hildmann "as a means of pressure in order to have Turkish opposition members extradited from Germany in return," Hunko told Stern.
MATTHIAS SCHNEIDER
