Hungary for justice

The spread of violence against Romany people is continuing in Hungary. Jake Bowers reports on the latest tragic case earlier this week.

According to Hungarian police, the double murder of the father and son occurred at dawn on Monday in the village of Tatarszentgyorgy, in Pest County, as they tried to escape from their house which had been set ablaze by a petrol bomb.

Hungarian Police are searching for two to three people in connection with the murder of a Romany man and his small son, yesterday’s edition of the Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag has reported.

According to the paper, the calibre of the hunting rifle they were shot with was the same used at a similar murder in Nagycsecs last November.





Reports in the Hungarian tabloid Blikk suggest there were at least two attackers, one of whom threw a petrol bomb onto the roof of the house. When it caught fire, the other one is reported to have held the shotgun some five meters from the entrance of the house, waiting for those inside to run out.

An expert, who asked not to be named, told Blikk that the father was shot into the heart five times, his son had 18 pellets in his back, and his daughter got four pellets into her side. She survived with serious injuries, the paper said