Police said late Sunday night that they had detained 35 people for violating the right of assembly, using force against officials and carrying dangerous items. They also arrested some who were disturbing the peace.
In one of the bigger clashes, Police used tear gas outside the Basilica to disperse about 300 demonstrators who were led by radical activist László Toroczkai. His fellow activist György Budaházy was detained as demonstrators faced riot police on Deák tér.
Toroczkai was later arrested after urging the crowd to go to the police building on Gyorskocsi utca in Buda on Monday to free Budaházy, said Budapest Police spokeswoman Éva Tafferner.
Elsewhere, 10-15 rioters rushed into Nyugati train station early in the evening, followed by police. The rioters threw beer cans at the group of about 30 policemen.
All groups of demonstrators had dispersed by 10 p.m. after police pushed them out of several places.
Police in the provinces were not called on to take any action.
I am no fan of the right wing, but how can you “violate the right of assembly”? if someone is “violating the right of free speech”, it means the government is preventing people from speaking freely. so violating the right of assembly is usually what the state or government does – preventing citizens from assembling according to their right.
But maybe this is just a translation error — maybe the group violated the “law” on assembly, not the “Right” of assembly.
Hungary today:
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Stan: One picture is worth a thousand words. How true!
The Land of the Free???
Isolation, Incompetence, Inefficiency, Irony, Inertia, Inferiority, Inforaroughride…!!!
Watch out when you can hear the silence..it grows louder by the day.