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The Budapest General Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against two foreign nationals (German and Italian citizens) who participated as members of a criminal organization in the Budapest attacks of February 2023.
On Monday, the Prosecutor’s Office said that according to the indictment, a German man – together with his partner – had set up an organization in Leipzig in 2017, sympathetic to extreme left-wing ideology, of which the perpetrators, including the German and Italian citizens involved in the new indictment, were members.
The members of the organization agreed that far-right sympathizers should be fought with violence, the Prosecutor’s Office informed the press. Accordingly, the members agreed to carry out organized attacks against unsuspecting victims identified or suspected of being far-right sympathizers of their choice. Their aim was to send a deterrent message to representatives of far-right movements by deliberately inflicting serious or even life-threatening injuries by the circumstances of the unexpected attack.
The attacks were well-planned, precise, and rehearsed.
The organization is also the subject of criminal proceedings in Germany for attacks committed there between October 2018, and February 2020, and in the case of one defendant, for assaults committed in Hungary.
Following the attacks in Germany between October 2018, and February 2020, in 2022, the members of the organization decided to carry out violent attacks in Budapest similar to those in Germany. The attacks were planned to take place on February 11, 2023, and on the days before and after the Day of Honor event.
The prosecutor’s office stressed that
the two defendants, along with other members of the group, had come to Hungary specifically to take part in the attacks in Budapest.
Subsequently, five attacks took place in Budapest between February 9 and 11, 2023, in which nine people were injured. The first attack took place at Nyugati railway station on a train, the second at Fővám Square, the third and fourth attacks took place on February 10, at Gazdagréti Square and Bank Street, and the fifth attack took place on February 11, at Mikó Street in the 1st district, the Prosecutor’s Office said. The victims included Hungarian and foreign nationals. Six of them suffered serious injuries, three light injuries, but several had potentially life-threatening injuries.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the German citizen was involved in the attacks in Fővám Square, Gazdagréti Square, and Bank Street, and the Italian citizen was involved in the attacks in Gazdagréti Square and Mikó Street.
The Budapest General Prosecutor’s Office charged the German national with four counts of attempted assault causing bodily harm in a criminal organization, partly as an accomplice and partly as an accessory, and one count of attempted aggravated assault committed with malicious intent in a criminal organization. The Italian national is charged with three counts of attempted culpable homicide in a criminal organization and as an accomplice.
The Prosecutor’s Office is proposing the imposition of a prison sentence and a fixed-term expulsion from Hungary.
Via MTI, Featured image: Hungary Today