2006 is far away. It's just not memorable. Neither the dilettantish governance leading the country towards bankruptcy, nor the unbridled rampage of the repressive machinery of the then prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsány, the police violence and brutality.
16 years after the regime change, everything that could not happen in any democracy happened: peaceful commemorators and those speaking out against the lies in Gyurcsány were beaten to death, shot at head height with rubber bullets, and people lying half-dead on the ground, unable to defend themselves, were kicked by unidentified "policemen". In 2008, Mária Schmidt, about the unbridled terrorist action ( This work was republished by the Látószög portal. ) The writing was originally Valéria Kormos : Human Hunt. It was published as a foreword to the volume entitled The true face of our rule of law 2006–2008.
15 years have passed since then, but those responsible for the barbaric rampage at that time have not been convicted to this day, and its leaders have no intention of apologizing to the innocent victims. Therefore, Mária Schmidt added an afterword to her writing, naming the judges, prosecutors and police leaders who were part of the never-ending terrorist acts and the subsequent conceptual trials.
Afterword
"I wrote this paper in 2008. Ferenc Gyurcsány was still the prime minister. Its current publication is justified by the fact that the 15 years that have passed since the state terror in the fall of 2006 have not silenced the shock and indignation that we felt then. In fact. Recalling the events, our desperation grows, since the punishment of those responsible and the culprits has almost completely failed , most of them even escaped confrontation. Neither they nor the political leaders apologized, nor followed the victims or the Hungarian citizens. So there is no forgiveness. As long as those responsible and the guilty hide behind their shame phlegmatically and arrogantly, they will face the fact that they will be called to account for their crimes again and again. "The crime is terrible, the accusation is heavy," writes János Arany in his ballad entitled Mrs. Ágnes.
That is why I am copying here again the names of the judges, prosecutors, and police chiefs who were also listed in the 2008 volume. If they have so far avoided their deserved punishment, at least they should be scorned by people of good sense.
September 19–21, 2006 between persons acting in the case of hunted youth (non-exhaustive)
Judges: Dr. Veronika Dénes, Dr. Angéla Fuér, Dr. Éva Gábriel, Dr. Krisztina Kovács, Dr. Csilla Szilágyi Martinecz, Dr. Katalin Ráczné Kschwendt, Dr. Attila Stummer, Dr. Tamás J. Tatár, Dr. Csaba Vasvári .
Prosecutors: Dr. Zsolt Falvai, Dr. Márta Palásti.
Police leaders: László Bene , r. lieutenant general, national police chief, Árpád Szabadfi , r. brigadier general, general deputy of the national police chief, József Dobozi , brigadier general, Police Security Service, Péter Gergényi , r. Major General, Budapest Police Chief, Attila Perlaki , VIII. district police captain, Attila Szabó Gáborjáni , 10th district police captain, Dr. Norbert Balázs , lieutenant colonel, one of the witnesses of the Dukán trial, Tamás Szabó , another witness of the Dukán trial.
Police terror October 23, 2006 (Archive photo: pestisracok.hu)
Then, in 2006, the government beat Hungarian citizens who opposed it. He wanted to intimidate them, to discourage them from expressing a political opinion. He wanted to use systematic state terror to humiliate those who celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Fidesz in 1956. Beating the citizens served multiple purposes. On the one hand, it was a demonstration of strength by the government and the parties behind it, which had fallen into a crisis of legitimacy, proving that they are still the masters of the house. But it also served to spectacularly humiliate those who faced them and to show their vulnerability. That is why the half-dead Fidesz member of parliament with a bandaged head: Máriusz Révész , who was ridiculed by the president of the ruling SZDSZ: Gábor Kuncze , in the Hungarian parliament, was therefore mocked as Martyrius. With this, the intention of the Gyurcsány government to squeeze the opposition Fidesz into the position of a helpless victim became clear. He did not succeed, because the opposition actively stood up for the victims from the first moment, considered their case as its own, and took every opportunity in the Parliament and outside to expose the state-ordered manhunt, to hold the acting authorities accountable, and to expose their crimes. Ilona Ékes , member of parliament from Fidesz, along with Valéria Kormos , the investigative journalist of Magyar Nemzet, and Sándorné Ács went from prison to prison to take stock of the abducted victims and monitored their fate. Zoltán Balog , Member of Parliament from Fidesz, Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Human Rights, Minorities, Civil and Religious Affairs, and Gergely Gulyás , Member of Parliament from Fidesz, stood by them in their parliamentary speeches and in the investigative committees they led and called for the prosecution of the authorities who acted against the law. A good number of civilians, well-known personalities and those lawyers who tirelessly undertook to stand up for the victims and provided their legal representation moved with them. Thus, Krisztina Morvai , Andrea Pelle and András Schiffer , Péter Bárándy and András Hajós demonstratively undertook the presentation of our volume.
The social liberal rulers used the terrorist toolkit of the communist total dictatorship against us. But in 2006, we had already been free for a decade and a half. Free citizens who did not tolerate being terrorized by those in power. That is why so many people raised their voices and turned against them.
Because we didn't want to live in fear again. We've had enough of that."
(The XXI Century Institute is organizing a round table discussion entitled "This is what they did to us in 2006" on November 15, 2021 at the House of Terror Museum, which will be attended by Gergely Gulyás, the minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office, and Bishop Zoltán Balog, the pastoral president of the Synod of the Hungarian Reformed Church .)
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