Fidesz MP Zoltán Balog, tried to give Justice and Law Enforcement Minister Tibor Draskovics a police boot on behalf of the NGO Szabadság Kör in Parliament yesterday, to recall police brutality since 2006, and alleged violation of human rights at state level and the application of double standards.
Balog, the head of Parliament’s human rights committee, complained that part of the media and left-wing liberal politicians stress without citing facts and sources that the recent brutal murders of Roma are racially motivated and connect them to the Magyar Gárda, a group which he also described as harmful, and to Fidesz.
“Based on such distorted reporting, the picture could emerge abroad that Hungary is a fascist country and that if the Socialists and the Free Democrats did not exist, then a right-wing dictatorship would have long reigned in Hungary,” Balog said. He asserted that in most Roma murders the perpetrators happened to be Roma and yet nobody has retracted their statement or made an apology.
State secretary Gábor Juhász refused to accept the police boot. Balog put it on his desk. Juhász later had the bailiff return it to Balog.
