August 25th, 2009

Charges pressed against Hungarian Guard members protesting outside police headquarters

Police have initiated legal proceedings against members of the banned paramilitary Hungarian Guard who stood in line in front of the national police’s Budapest headquarters on Monday while the Guard’s founder was in a hearing inside the building.

Several uniformed members of the Guard stood in line outside the compound and were asked by police to stop their unlawful act, said police spokeswoman Andrea Belicza Beluzsar. She said that the Guard members disassembled and police initiated proceedings against 16 of them for violating the ban on participation in any event of a legally disbanded civil organisation, she added.

Founder of the Hungarian Guard Gabor Vona, who also heads the radical nationalist Jobbik Party affiliated with the Guard movement, was heard as a suspect, accused of being the chief organiser of the Guard’s event last weekend. On Saturday the Guard held an induction ceremony to 500 people on private grounds in Szentendre, north of Budapest. The uniformed participants were warned by police that the event was against Hungary’s law on free assembly. The guardsmen went ahead and swore their oaths. Police initiated legal proceedings against 176 participants after the event.

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  1. Nationalist says:

    Fucked up Journalism again , you slopy cunts! 620 members were inducted. Seems like there will be a revolution soon if this continues.

  2. garda pantyhose says:

    revolution of the magyar garda?? AHAHAHA! dont make me laugh! If it ever happens, it will be crushed like a wallnut by a squirrel!

  3. Ricsi says:

    To our juvenile idiots–When he said Revolution he meant a Hungarian revolution.Remember we had a few of those,do you think another is impossible?

  4. Rendör says:

    almost 5000 police should a willingness to join the Jobbik affiliated Police Union until told it was forbidden by our masters.

  5. Viking says:

    Ricsi,
    How many of the Hungarian Revolutions were victorious?

  6. Insurrection says:

    What happened in Hungary in October 1956 was not a revolution but an insurrection. It was an uprising. When it began it was spontaneous and leaderless, and it was truly a movement of the masses bound by one common hatred of the old regime. Yet it was an anti-Communist uprising like no other. Many of the rebels held Party membership cards. Most were workers or peasants. The uncanny feature was that it resembled the classic Marxist revolution, it was fed by conditions which Karl Marx had always predicted would result in revolution, and it was led by the workers, the very stratum which he had expected would take the revolutionary lead. The parallels with what happened in Poland in the late summer of 1980 are striking; the exception is that this summer the workers were subdued by blandishments and promises of reform, while in past decades the Marxist governments have invariably turned their machine guns on the workers from whom they villainously claim to draw their mandate.

  7. coastalatlantic says:

    Not to mention that nobody knows where the loyalties of the magyar honvédség lay…

  8. Viking says:

    Yes and in 1953 in East Germany there was a uprising. The uprising in Berlin was violently suppressed by tanks of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei. In spite of the intervention of Soviet troops, the wave of strikes and protests was not easily brought under control.
    -
    And what has this to do with the current situation in Hungary?

  9. Insurrection says:

    Hungarian movement of the masses bound by one common hatred of the old regime.

  10. Viking says:

    Doing what?
    It seems that Sólyom has created a situation that ‘Hungarian Nationalists’ can rally around to attack Slovakia, with petrol-bombs at their embassy in Budapest.
    Revolution is not in this week, more a war with Slovakia.
    Maybe the Revolution will be fashionable next week?