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Determined to disrupt the March 15 Hungarian national holiday with a large anti-Hungarian banner, the leader of the Calea Neamului (National Road) marched into the center of Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy), a city with a large Hungarian minority in Romania, reported Székelyhon. However, his message was not delivered: the authorities caught Mihai Târnovenanu and his three companions before the banner was unfurled, and they left the scene with a fine of 10,000 lei (EUR 2,010) instead.
“We sent a message to the Hungarian Foreign Minister in the midst of three thousand Hungarians in Sfântu Gheorghe: There is one thing that is eternal: Transylvania is Romanian land,” Mihai Tîrnoveanu began his account on his social media page after his visit to the police station with his companions during the March 15 celebrations. The event was also attended this year by Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Péter Szijjártó, which is thought to have caught the attention of the extremist nationalist organization.
Main Square at Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy). Photo: Wikipedia
According to the leader of the Nation’s Way, the gendarmes “brutally” tore down the banner they had made, forced them into a van, and took them to the police station, where they were fined a total of 10,000 lei for the action and detained until the end of the celebrations. Tîrnoveanu entered the square with the intention of causing a disturbance, protesting against what he called an “irredentist demonstration” on March 15, wrote Szekelyhon. In his post, he described the banner reading “Transylvania is Romanian land” as an historical truth, while expressing indignation that he and his colleagues were being punished for reacting to Hungary’s “aggression” against Romania.
The Hungarian Foreign Minister in Sfântu Gheorghe, Szepsiszentgyörgy. Photo: Péter Szijjártó
Tîrnoveanu last visited Sfântu Gheorghe on December 1, 2023, with the aim of organizing a celebration in honor of the Romanian people. Instead of a roaring crowd, the event succeeded in attracting only a relatively small audience, with a few anti-Hungarian shouts being heard.
Mayor Árpád Antal reacted to the provocation by saying:
Hungarians and Romanians live and celebrate together in peace. All this was confirmed on this year’s Hungarian national holiday, as apart from the Tîrnoveanu incident, noticed only by those in his immediate vicinity, there was no disturbance and the program went on as usual.”
Via Székelyhon.ro; Featured Image: Mihai Târnoveanu