Only a few days ago, Steven Feldman uploaded videos to his social networks in which he commented on neo-Nazi and far-right events in Germany. He himself is a representative of this extremist camp. However, Feldman did not publish the videos from his native Dortmund, where he is gaining popularity on TikTok and YouTube, but from… Bulgaria.
Feldman has been in hiding for almost two years
The neo-Nazi was detained near Veliko Tarnovo on April 22 in a student dormitory, German media reported. In August 2023, he was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for causing grievous bodily harm, fraud and threats. He has been arrested before for racist violence.
However, the Dortmund right-wing extremist never went to jail because he was on the run. At the insistence of the Dortmund prosecutor's office, a European arrest warrant was issued for Feldman. He is in hiding, but he does not stop appearing on social media. There, he presents an image that contradicts his aggressive actions from the past - he does not hide that he is part of neo-Nazi groups, but he is even willing to talk to influencers who are migrants in Germany. He supports all of them being extradited, but claims that he did not blame them, but the system.
The connections between the far-right in Germany and Bulgaria are known
The German authorities, with the help of the Bulgarian police, managed to locate him in Veliko Tarnovo and so he was detained. The connections between the far-right in Germany and Bulgaria are well known, WDR points out, as their representatives participate together in events in both countries. Thus, in 2020, the German police banned nine Germans from flying to Sofia to join the Lukovmarch.
The Dortmund police chief praised the cooperation between the authorities in Bulgaria and Germany. "I would like to thank all those involved for this successful investigation, which would not have been possible without international pressure at the European level", pointed out Gregor Lange, adding: "Fleeing is no defense against punishment".