Last autumn, the government commissioned the human resources and the justice ministers to define conditions for compensation entitlement as well as the actual amount to be paid out. Anyone who suffered bodily injuries or lived in a common household with either the victim or with the person injured during the attacks, or was a close relative, is entitled to the payments.

The ministry in charge of social integration will conclude an agreement with a civil organisation with extensive experience in victim support, which will make a proposal on the sum of the compensation. Six people, including a five-year-old boy, died in nine attacks carried out against Roma families between July 2008 and August 2009 in villages in central and eastern Hungary.

Another five people suffered serious injuries. A district court of Budapest in August this year handed down three life sentences in a non-binding ruling to three suspects, while the fourth suspect received a 13-year prison sentence.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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