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Fine Over HUF 1 Million Issued for Vandalising LGBTQ Materials in Budapest to Mi Hazank MP

• 13 Nov 2024 5:36 AM

The Budapest Municipal Court has fined Elod Novak, a lawmaker of the Mi Hazank (Our Homeland) party, to 1.1 million forints (EUR 2,690) for various instances of removing rainbow flags and defacing a poster connected to LGBTQ issues.

The municipal court rejected the first-instance court's decision to sentence Novak also on criminal damage charges, but left the fine in place.

During 2020, Novak removed rainbow flags from the municipal building of the 11th district, a cultural centre there, and the Budapest Town Hall. He was reprimanded by court for the latter earlier. A year earlier, Novak poured paint on a poster which he said was "connected with LGBTQ propaganda", and defended himself by saying he had been expressing his opinion through his actions.

Meanwhile, Mi Hazank urges repeal of Benes Decrees

The opposition Mi Hazank movement wants the Benes Decrees that treated Hungarians and Germans in Czechoslovakia as collective criminals at the end of the second world war rescinded, a party official told a press conference on Tuesday.

The radical party's deputy leader David Docs said it was decades ago that ties between the Hungarian and Slovak governments had been as good as they are today, so the time had come to propose revoking the decrees, which were now treated as "dead legislation" in Slovakia, yet they still held back ethnic Hungarians living there.

He noted that the Slovak parliament had stopped tightening the country's language law "to the detriment of Hungarians". Mi Hazank, "as the only national-minded opposition party", wanted to ensure that the rights of the Hungarian community in "the separated territories" were fully protected, he added.

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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