Police launched misdemeanour proceedings against 176 people who took part in a swearing-in ceremony near Szentendre on Saturday as members of the New Magyar Gárda.
Jobbik chairman and Magyar Gárda founder Gábor Vona was handed a summons on suspicion of abuse of the right of assembly. Jobbik hosted the gathering on private land encircled by a fence where 620 people wearing the uniform of the banned Magyar Gárda took the oath.
When the members took the oath, police penetrated the area and asked all those present for their identification cards. Vona called the police action illegal.
Police say the inauguration of Gárda members is a misdemeanour punishable by a Ft 100,000 fine. Those who take part in running a banned social organisation could be sentenced by up to a year in prison, community work or fines.
The land is owned by Szentendre entrepreneur Imre Kisanyik, who was elected to the town council on the Croatian minority list in 1998. Several Gárda events were held on his land in the past.
Human rights body the Helsinki Committee clearly supported the police measure as legal. In the past it has criticised police measures relating to the Magyar Gárda.
The Gárda gendarmerie, the police section of the Gárda, was established on Saturday, a person calling himself “a new Hungarian guardsman” told MTI.
It is funny that Hungarian history is full of these mixed-Hungarians becoming ‘BIG’ Hungarians.
‘Magyar Garda’/Jobbik’s biggest supporter a Croat. Not enough ‘Magyars’ to go around, or they are just ‘peasant pawns’ in the big chess of life?
Viking,
It is always like this, the foreigners want to
assert themselves, to prove their loyalty.
The Iron Guard was Romania was in 1930s, and it is
nowdays (Noua Dreapata), FULL of non-Romanians.
In fact even their 1930s Leader was a Polish with
a romanized name (Zelea Codreanu) and many top
members were “Macedonians” (a balcanic ethnic
group related linguistically to the Romanians but
ethnically quite distinct). The same happens today
in the “Romanian” far right (for instance the
leader of the Banat organization is a Serbian not
an ethnic Romanians).
It is a about a foriegners showing loyalty ( “more
magyar than the magyars”) and they tend to be
execssively violent, more than the real-ethnics,
in order to show their loyalty
Mr Stoica your observations and comments are quite correct, I feel.
Unfortunately what is happening at the moment is that little by little Hungary is becoming prone
to extreme groups gaining popularity because of the insipid and corrupt MSZP government’s lack of effectiveness in governing this country.
Social and economi deprivation is widespread.
Hungary is a small country and has a small population – ten million. If government/s cannot maintain control of the social and economical environment now – how in King Stephen’s name do they hope to achieve success with expansionist ideas?
The Balkans is “bubbling up” nicely again with the usual suspects clamouring at each other’s throat.
Hungary has had great opportunities in recent years to make good progress for the benefit of all. Poor government has made sure those chances have been sqaundered.
The provinces are being taken over by gypsies -the cities by foreign investors, and EU bureaucracy.
Does Hungary any longer have a flag, or an identity?
Viking@We find it funny how Jobbiks biggest critique is a pseudo-Swede living in Budapest!Your one track anti-everything Hungary is really pathetic for a ‘viking’
Ricsi,
I assume your friend Tamás Sneider, Jobbik’s representative on the city council of Eger, is not so amused as you today when he was arrested by the police last week?
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Jobbik’s Tamás Sneider was the head of the youth organization of the Smallholders in the county of Heves in the 90s and was involved in a Roma beating on the streets of Eger.
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Seems like not all Jobbik reps are small white lambs?
Viking–nobody ever claimed to be lambs,lambs grow up to be easily led sheep,like your kind.
Why do the Gárda have a roaring ‘big cat’ on the uniform instead of a passive sheep?