The President of the EP announced that they had requested immunity from Peter Magyar

He received a request from the Hungarian authorities to release the immunity of Peter Magyar, name Thursday Roberta Metsola. The President of the European Parliament (EP) said that the matter will be forwarded to the legal committee of the EP.

This specialized committee will provide an opinion on the matter, on which the entire representative body can vote.

The immunity of the EP representative who leads the Tisza Party has also been suspended he asked in September Office of the Attorney General. According to the statement of the board, Péter Magyar was having fun in a Budapest club in June, where a man, among others, took a video of him with his mobile phone. After one of Magyar’s companions noticed that the man was recording, they got into an argument with him. During the argument, Magyar suddenly took the phone out of the man’s hand and put it in his pocket. He did not return the phone even after several requests, he denied having it. After leaving the night club, she went towards the Danube, followed by several people, including the man. The representative walked straight down to the shore and deliberately dropped the phone into the Danube. “This behavior lends itself to the realization of the legal facts of the crime of theft,” the statement said.

Hungarian according to a paid promoter wanted to record a video party. “In vain we asked him to stop and delete from his phone the recordings that many young people did not agree to, or at least to stop filming. After he talked about my family and children, I took the phone out of his hand, which led to a physical threat. He started pushing me, physically threatening me and those who were having fun with me. “

About the circumstances of the case in this article we wrote in more detail.

Tamás Deutsch, head of the Fidesz-KDNP EP delegation, wrote a letter to all the representatives “Regarding the immunity issue of Peter Magyar, his outrageous behavior and the common law crime he committed”. In return, Magyar promised, due to defamation reports Deutsch, and giving up her immunityif the government joins the EU prosecution.

“If we believe in the rule of law, why do we politicize the issue?” – he asked Manfred Weber, leader of the EP Tiszas group, the European People’s Party in the center. At the EP debate the next day Viktor Orbánapart from Deutsch also mentioned the case.

Cover image: Fred Marvaux / European Parliament / European Union