German ‘who told people to arm themselves against refugees and sold guns worth US$124,000 online’ arrested in Hungary
Prosecutors say Mario Rönsch ran the website ‘Migrants’ Fright’, which told people to take up arms – and also delivered them, first-class, ‘without annoying paperwork’
A German anti-immigrant campaigner who told his followers to “arm themselves against migrants” sold guns worth US$124,000 via his website “Migrant’s Fright”, Berlin prosecutors say.
Mario Rönsch (also spelt Roensch), 34, was detained in his home in Budpest, Hungary, on Wednesday morning on suspicion of selling 193 guns to German clients from May to November 2016 before the site was shut down.
An internet search showed the website offered “first class and discreetly delivered” ammunition and guns such as pistols and Kalashnikovs to clients “without troublesome bureaucratic hurdles or annoying paperwork”.
“He is believed to have illegally sold 193 permit-requiring firearms to buyers in Germany,” the statement from the Berlin prosecutor’s office read.
Broadcasters NDR and WDR said that Rönsch was detained under a European arrest warrant and that he had earned around 100,000 euros (US$124,000) selling the weapons, which fired rubber bullets of the kind “that could cause serious injuries and kill people”.
