On May 10, the funeral of the unshakable fighter of justice in the fall of 2006 will take place.
On April 12, we received the tragic news that our beloved colleague, the retired president of the former Supreme Court and the co-chairman of the Civil Legal Committee established to investigate the state terror of the fall of 2006, dr. Miklós Völgyesi died in the 89th year of his life.
We will preserve his memory with grace, he was a pure-hearted, brave and true lawyer, and he will be for all of us who knew him and loved him. His death is a great loss for his relatives and loved ones, but also for our entire nation.
In person, we lost the unshakable fighter for justice in the fall of 2006, who, along with many of us, refused to accept that the criminals with bloody hands of the systematically organized mass police violence against the Hungarian people and those responsible for the subsequent reprisals would get away with impunity.
He said about this:
"I still stand by my previous statement: the fall of 2006. but especially the failure to prosecute the captains and chief officers performing command duties, as well as their subordinate commanders and subordinate public policemen, for the brutal, unlawful, and therefore illegal police actions on October 23rd, which caused serious injuries and were then and there intimidated, beaten, unacceptable for humiliated citizens…”
But Ferenc Gyurcsány, who determined the course of events at the top of the power pyramid, also saw the impeachment of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány as justified and inevitable, as he put it:
"there was not the kind of catharsis that only the judiciary could provide, which would have made the broadest sections of society realize that they were dealing with a villain who committed common law crimes and always got away with it."
But he severely criticized the judges and prosecutors who played a dishonorable role in the massive retaliatory criminal proceedings, seriously violating the rules of their profession.
Using the knowledge and experience he gained during his many decades of work as a judge, which he performed with integrity and honor even in the period before 1990, he fought resolutely until his death for the perpetrators of the series of state terrorist acts of September and October 2006 to be punished.
In chapter 7 of its report, the Civil Lawyers Committee exposed the drastic violations of the law by the Gyurcsány government's powerful forces in detail and on good grounds. As the co-chairman of the Civil Lawyers Committee, he took a significant part in the enlightening, awareness-raising work and public debates that prevented the crimes of 2006 from being swept under the carpet, always standing on the ground of determined professionalism.
His bitter personal experience may also have spurred him on in his relentless pursuit of justice, that even as a judge he had to face the difficulties of impeachment in the case of those who drowned in blood in the 1956 war of independence, the commanders of the murderous volleys.
Dr. The criminal council led by Miklós Völgyesi confirmed in the fall of 2001 that the perpetrators had committed a never-ending crime against humanity and aggravated the imposed punishments, as the conditions of the Geneva Convention had been met. But because of this domestic court decision, the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment condemning our country, which Dr. Miklós Völgyesi said:
"the Strasbourg verdict insults the memory of the Hungarian uprising and freedom struggle of '56, and calls into question the heroism of the people who were killed and executed."
But in the end, the person responsible for the shooting did not escape: Dr. He again received the punishment imposed by the council of Miklós Völgyesi.
Following his mission as co-chairman of the Civil Lawyers Committee, the late dr. He played a decisive role in the preparation of István Balsai's 2011 report (Balsai report). This report, displaying his professional position, not only established the commission of 15 different crimes in connection with violent attacks against demonstrators and commemorators, but also pointed out among them that based on the evaluation of the evidence
"in view of the motivation and the chain of events listed, the Civil Code may be raised. Also the possibility of committing a terrorist act defined in § 261, paragraph (1) point b).
In 2011, he himself filed a complaint against Ferenc Gyurcsány and the police leaders at the time for the crime of terrorism. In his book of interviews with him entitled "Who announced a prime minister", he said this:
"the prime minister at the time decided to use the only armed force under his control, the police, to intimidate the protesting population, which is considered a terrorist act according to Hungarian law."
As an expert, he played a significant role in the XVI of 2011 on the rectification of convictions related to mass riots in the fall of 2006, declaring the nullity of illegal convictions based solely on a police report or police testimony. in creating a law.
He testified that on September 19-21, 2006 and October 23-24. between the period between
This was fully fulfilled in the fall of 2006 by the law enforcement agencies protecting the power of the Gyurcsánys, whose members illegally attacked demonstrators and commemorators in masks, without identification numbers and badges, with flagrant cruelty, in serious violation of legal regulations, and with illegal means and methods.
Since the act of terrorism is a crime with no statute of limitations, prosecution is still possible. Not only receiving reparations is a priority human right for victims, but also holding perpetrators accountable.
And, of course, this also serves to have a deterrent effect and thus prevent a similar disgrace in the future in our country.
He was always ready to fight for justice, if it was necessary to stand up for the defamed and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
His funeral will take place on May 10, 2024 at 1:45 p.m. in the Farkasréti cemetery in Budapest (1124 Bp., Németvölgyi út 99).
His memory obliges all well-meaning Hungarians not to forget and to never forget the anti-national arbitrariness and to continue our struggle to bring those responsible for the 2006 state terror to justice for the act of terrorism.
Dear Miklós! May God grant you eternal peace! We say goodbye to you with the words of Mihály Babits:
"With strong truth against violence: live like this, and you don't have to be afraid, God is already with you."
God protect and guide Hungary!
Former members of the Civil Legal Committee: dr. Attila Horváth, dr. Imre Juhász, dr. Csaba Kabódi, dr. Krisztina Morvai, dr. Anna Szöőr, dr. Gaudi-Tamas the Great
The managements, members and supporters of the National Legal Protection Foundation (president: Dr. Zsolt Zétényi), the National Legal Protection Service (executive director: Dr. Tamás Gaudi-Nagy) and the Association of Victims of Public Power (President: György Gőbl)
Source: Hungarian Nation
Cover image: Budapest, February 21, 2012. Miklós Völgyesi, retired former Supreme Court president and one of the authors of the book based on the Balsai report, is sitting in the lodge during the discussion of the National Assembly resolution proposal on the adoption of the Balsai report investigating violent police action in 2006, the At the plenary session of the National Assembly. MTI Photo: Zoltán Máthé
