Over 300 supporters of the paramilitary Hungarian Guard gathered in the centre of Miskolc (N) on Friday to protest against a recent ban on the organisation, MTI’s on-site correspondents reported.
Participants arrived with the red-and-white stripes associated with Hungary’s extreme right and with flags of the radical nationalist Jobbik party.
On July 2, a Budapest court of appeal issued a legally binding ruling banning the Guard, the uniformed arm of Jobbik. The appellate court upheld a decision of December 2007, not long after the Guard’s first of a series of anti-Roma marches in Tatarszentgyorgy, a village in central Hungary, which later became known for the murder of a Roma man and his young son and other anti-Roma violence.
