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January 18th, 2010

Raiders to TV headquarters in 2006 sentenced

By MTI

One person was sentenced to imprisonment, seven others were given suspended prison terms for their part in violent protests in 2006, in which rioters occupied the headquarters of Hungarian Television, a Budapest court said on Friday.

On the night of September 18-19, 2006, a group of protesters demanding the resignation of then Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany stormed MTV headquarters, and set fire to the building. Altogether 191 policemen defending the building were injured, 21 of them seriously.

Previously, about one dozen people got suspended prison terms for their involvement in the siege.

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  1. Viking says:
    January 18, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    And all of these were paid by the MSZP-Government to cause riots, if one should believe Mark.
    Mark thinks the convicted rioters got too low sentences.
    In Mark-country these rioters would have got?

  2. Toby says:
    January 18, 2010 at 1:31 pm

    …a presidential pardon and an award for services to democracy and the anti-gay-muslim-jewish-transvestite-gypsy movement.

  3. TDS says:
    January 18, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    Sorry, that should of course have been: anti-COMMUNIST-gay-muslim-jewish-transvestite-gypsy movement…

  4. Mark says:
    January 19, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    “One person was sentenced to imprisonment, seven others were given suspended prison terms for their part in violent protests in 2006, in which rioters occupied the headquarters of Hungarian Television, a Budapest court said on Friday.”
    At least we know which ONE was NOT a paid MSZP provocateur.
    Try to guess which one :-)

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    March 3, 2010 at 4:33 pm

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