Should Protesters Who Blocked Budapest Bridge Face Indictment?

  • 16 Jul 2025 6:39 AM
Should Protesters Who Blocked Budapest Bridge Face Indictment?
The Budapest police (BRFK) has closed its investigation into a blockade of central Budapest's Liberty Bridge on April 22 and proposed the indictment of protesters on charges of "attempted disruption of a public facility committed in a group".

According to the police website, officers questioned five people as suspects in the blockade.

In the investigation, they established that the participants of a legal demonstration in nearby Ferenciek Square had "illegitimately set off for Liberty Bridge", and on arriving at the bridge, "sat down in the road, thereby blocking traffic".

After disobeying the police's call to leave the bridge, the police applied coercion to remove the protesters, the website said.

 

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