magyar garda
March 02, 2010, 12:58 CET
Journalist running for parliament seeks answers about Jobbik's friends
Journalist and current Democratic Forum parliamentary candidate József Debreczeni took time away from praising Ferenc Gyurcsány and demonizing Viktor Orbán to throw some questions at Jobbik over the weekend, nol.hu reports. Specifically, he wanted to know what Jobbiks' relationship is... [read complete entry]
December 17, 2009, 09:43 CET
Jobbik head Vona says Fidesz's Orbán cuts "tragic figure"
"Fidesz chairman Viktor Orbán knows what he should do but has no room for manoeuvre so there is nothing left for him to do except to utter platitudes," Jobbik chairman Gábor Vona told MTV Wednesday morning. "Jobbik has no need... [read complete entry]
December 16, 2009, 09:35 CET
Supreme Court upholds ban on Magyar Gárda
The Supreme Court dissolved the far-right Magyar Gárda society and movement on Tuesday, upholding an earlier ruling issued by the Budapest Court of Appeals. The prosecutor's office launched a civil lawsuit to have the group dissolved two years ago, arguing... [read complete entry]
December 09, 2009, 01:08 CET
Can our witch of a Nan back in Nantwich give money to the Gárda?
In an alarming indication of our likely inability to melt into cyberspace if the shit really hits the fan here in Hungary, someone just called us on the telephone, from England, wanting to know if the official ban on the... [read complete entry]
November 25, 2009, 08:41 CET
Magyar Gárda plans to hold commemorative event in Romania
The radical nationalist organization Hungarian Guard is planning to hold an event in Transylvania to mark the 91st anniversary of the formation of The Székely Regiment (Székely Hadosztály), Transylvanian daily Krónika reports. The Székely Regiment was established in Kolozsvár (today's... [read complete entry]
November 23, 2009, 08:32 CET
Police face off against Magyar Gárda at memorial march for interwar leader
A march organised by the far-right Jobbik party marking the 90th anniversary of the procession of Regent Miklós Horthy into Budapest took place in the 11th District on Sunday. Police prevented units of the outlawed Magyar Gárda from following the... [read complete entry]
October 22, 2009, 09:29 CET
Helsinki Committee says Magyar Gárda uniform illegal
Wearing the uniform of the banned radical nationalist Hungarian Guard (Magyar Gárda) is an illegal act in itself, and events where participants turn up so dressed can be dissolved legally by the police, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee told MTI in... [read complete entry]
September 28, 2009, 12:08 CET
Magyar Gárda marches on Roma ghetto
Some 80 to 100 people, most of them in the uniform of outlawed far-right militia the Magyar Gárda, marched to a house in the Roma ghetto in Kiskunlacháza early Saturday. The following day it was reported that a Roma person... [read complete entry]
September 21, 2009, 10:16 CET
Hungarian Guard turns to Supreme Court over ban
The radical nationalist Hungarian Guard is turning to the country's Supreme Court, asking it to review a ruling by an appeals court banning the organisation, a legal charity told MTI on Friday. On July 2 a Budapest court of appeal... [read complete entry]
September 14, 2009, 11:40 CET
Police break up Magyar Gárda event near Budapest
Proceedings have been launched against the banned paramilitary Hungarian Guard who held a family event over the weekend in Kerepes, just north of Budapest, Monday's Nepszava daily reported. Some 500 people attended the event held on private grounds and police... [read complete entry]
August 25, 2009, 11:30 CET
Charges pressed against Hungarian Guard members protesting outside police headquarters
Police have initiated legal proceedings against members of the banned paramilitary Hungarian Guard who stood in line in front of the national police's Budapest headquarters on Monday while the Guard's founder was in a hearing inside the building. Several uniformed... [read complete entry]
August 24, 2009, 09:50 CET
Police swoop on Magyar Gárda induction ceremony
Police launched misdemeanour proceedings against 176 people who took part in a swearing-in ceremony near Szentendre on Saturday as members of the New Magyar Gárda.... [read complete entry]
August 19, 2009, 09:31 CET
Court upholds ban on Magyar Gárda induction ceremony
Police will have the right to break up a Magyar Gárda gathering planned for Saturday, the Budapest Municipal Court ruled yesterday. The banned radical paramilitary group planned a swearing-in ceremony at Heroes Square. Budapest Police declared that they will take... [read complete entry]
August 05, 2009, 11:06 CET
Magyar Gárda said to consider patrolling village where Roma woman killed
The mayor of Kisleta, the NE Hungary village where a Roma woman was shot dead, told MTI on Tuesday that an unidentified caller connected to the paramilitary Hungarian Guard had threatened to send bikers to the village to mount "patrols".... [read complete entry]
July 29, 2009, 09:32 CET
Hungarian Guard uniform-wearing Jobbik MEP mistaken for French handyman
Following the banning of the Hungarian Guard, Jobbik MEP Csanád Szegedi wore the guard's uniform in protest during his first appearance in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The only problem with this, right-leaning magyarhirlap.hu reported, was that the European Parliament... [read complete entry]
July 17, 2009, 11:11 CET
Wife-beating report black eye for Magyar Gárda
While the government and media continues to hunt, in vain, for any evidence of physical attacks by members of the Magyar Gárda on Gypsies, Jews or other groups allegedly targeted by the paramilitary nationalist self-defense organization, stop.hu is claiming that... [read complete entry]
July 17, 2009, 10:06 CET
Police reportedly call in Gárda captain for interrogation
The Budapest police (BRFK) has summoned Magyar Gárda head captain Róbert Kiss to its headquarters next week for interrogation, daily Népszabadság reports. The paper claims that Kiss is to be questioned on potential charges of incitement and abuse of the... [read complete entry]
July 17, 2009, 09:48 CET
Leading Socialist MEP says Gárda uniforms violate EP rules
The wearing of the Magyar Gárda uniform in the European Parliament is against House rules, according to MEP Martin Schultz, the head of the legislature's Socialist bloc. Schultz is considered likely to replace newly elected Jerzy Buzek as President of... [read complete entry]
July 16, 2009, 10:02 CET
Justice Minister promises crackdown on Magyar Gárda
Justice and Law Enforcement Minister Tibor Draskovics promised yesterday to crack down on the Magyar Gárda so long as it is banned by the courts. "It is unparalleled that some people are openly turning against court rulings, especially in support... [read complete entry]
July 15, 2009, 08:26 CET
Analysts say ban on Magyar Gárda has risks for Jobbik
A recent ban on the paramilitary Hungarian Guard could strengthen the grouping in the short term and make it more difficult to keep it in check, analysts said on Tuesday. The short-term gain in support for the radical nationalist Jobbik... [read complete entry]
July 14, 2009, 04:13 CET
Jobbik MEP wears banned Hungarian Guard uniform in first EP session
One of the radical nationalist Jobbik party's new representatives in the European Parliament appeared for the first session of the body wearing the uniform of the banned paramilitary arm of his party, the Hungarian Guard, in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Csanad... [read complete entry]
July 14, 2009, 11:53 CET
Oh, that Hitler!
Nógrád County native and longtime tipster M.A. just alerted us to a webpage that seems to shed some new light on the now-simmering question of to what extent members of Hungary's recently-outlawed Magyar Gárda admire Hitler. The page, which... [read complete entry]
July 14, 2009, 10:13 CET
Police investigate "new" Magyar Gárda; former minister mulls banning Jobbik
Budapest Police are looking into who may have violated the law by refounding the outlawed Magyar Gárda after it was dissolved by a court on July 2, police chief József Bencze told Kossuth Rádió. The police have asked prosecutors to... [read complete entry]
July 13, 2009, 11:28 CET
Radical nationalists demonstrate in Budapest, "re-establish" Magyar Gárda
Demonstrations of over 2,500 supporters of radical nationalist organisations held in two locations in central Budapest ended peacefully in the early evening hours on Saturday. Gabor Szabo, party director of radical nationalist Jobbik announced that his party's recently banned Hungarian... [read complete entry]
July 13, 2009, 11:13 CET
Bajnai honors policemen for handling of "illegal" right-wing protests
Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai on Friday honoured eight policemen for controlling the situation at a July 4 demonstration in support of the banned radical nationalist Hungarian Guard, the government spokesman's office told MTI in a statement. The prime minister decided... [read complete entry]
July 13, 2009, 11:12 CET
Magyar Gárda rallies in Miskolc to protest ban
Over 300 supporters of the paramilitary Hungarian Guard gathered in the centre of Miskolc (N) on Friday to protest against a recent ban on the organisation, MTI's on-site correspondents reported. Participants arrived with the red-and-white stripes associated with Hungary's extreme... [read complete entry]
July 09, 2009, 10:42 CET
Poll finds Hungarians evenly split on Magyar Gárda ban
Half of those asked in a recent survey welcomed a court decision banning the radical nationalist Hungarian Guard, one third of the respondents, however, thought that the police's reaction to a subsequent pro-Guard demonstration was much too harsh, the national... [read complete entry]
July 08, 2009, 09:30 CET
Police defend action against weekend demonstrators
The action taken by police against demonstrators on Erzsébet tér on Saturday were lawful and professional, the National Police said in a statement issued Tuesday. The statement said that police did not begin to disperse the banned demonstration until it... [read complete entry]
July 07, 2009, 09:34 CET
Commission vets complaints over police conduct at weekend demonstration
Hungary's Independent Police Complaints Authority has received five complaints by Monday noon regarding police action at a weekend demonstration of the paramilitary Hungarian Guard, the authority's chairman told MTI. Jeno Kaltenbach said the complaints targeted the police's alleged use of... [read complete entry]
July 06, 2009, 10:23 CET
Socialists, Fidesz squabble over allegations of extremism
Hungary's ruling Socialist party calls on main opposition Fidesz to clearly distance itself from Hungary's radical nationalists and help create an "anti-fascist" consensus, MP Gergely Barandy said on Sunday. Barandy was speaking in response to a demonstration on Saturday by... [read complete entry]
July 06, 2009, 09:34 CET
Police break up Magyar Gárda protest; Jobbik leader detained
Police clashed in downtown Erzsébet tér on Saturday afternoon with a few hundred demonstrators who gathered to protest at Thursday’s court ruling dissolving the Magyar Gárda paramilitary group. One of the 216 detained was Gábor Vona, head of the Gárda... [read complete entry]
July 03, 2009, 10:45 CET
Appeals court reaffirms ban on Magyar Gárda
A Budapest court of appeal on Thursday issued a legally binding ruling banning the Hungarian Guard, the uniformed arm of the radical nationalist party Jobbik. The decision applies to the Hungarian Guard Cultural Association for the Preserving of Traditions. The... [read complete entry]
June 17, 2009, 09:30 CET
Jobbik to hold demonstrations and "assist police"
“The Magyar Gárda and the National Defence Army will hold patrols and stage demonstrations to help the police until the gendarmerie is formed,” Jobbik deputy chairman Csaba Gyüre and spokesman of the self-styled National Defence Army László Bodrog told a... [read complete entry]
June 10, 2009, 09:34 CET
Noted expert says corruption to blame for rise of Jobbik
Corruption in voters' eyes undid the Socialist and Free Democrat parties in Sunday's EU elections, political scientist László Lengyel comments in a contribution to hvg.hu. There is no Socialist or liberal voter who could not cite an example of corruption,... [read complete entry]
June 08, 2009, 03:38 CET
Profiles of Hungary's new MEPs
Hungary's conservatives and radical party Jobbik virtually swept the board in Sunday's European Elections. Among the country's politicians to take their seats in the EP are a former Olympic champion, a British academic and a former member of the European... [read complete entry]
June 03, 2009, 09:13 CET
Orbán says collapse of state cause of Magyar Gárda's rise
The existence of the Magyar Gárda is due to the collapse of the state, while social bitterness is behind the growing support for the radical Jobbik party, Fidesz chairman Viktor Orbán said in an interview with the conservative German newspaper... [read complete entry]
May 29, 2009, 11:32 CET
Poll finds public support for Jobbik's views deeper than party backing
The views promoted by Hungary's radical nationalist Jobbik party are more popular than the party itself, pollster Median said in a report published by the weekly HVG on Thursday. There are more sympathisers of the Hungarian Guard, a paramilitary organisation... [read complete entry]
May 28, 2009, 10:59 CET
Amnesty International raps Hungary on Roma rights, lack of speech curbs
The Hungarian Roma community is still forced to suffer discrimination in every area of life, and gays too must contend with the intolerance of violent groups, according to a report by Amnesty International published on Thursday. The world's largest human... [read complete entry]
May 18, 2009, 11:10 CET
Public support for Magyar Gárda grows
Around 10 percent of the Hungarian public sympathises with the radical nationalist Magyar Garda movement, according to a survey by the Progressive Institute published on Sunday. If the movement were a political party it would have the backing of 9... [read complete entry]
May 12, 2009, 08:53 CET
Leader of Socialist EP ticket decries election's focus on domestic politics
Ex-Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz, who tops the Socialist Party's list for the June 7 European parliamentary elections, on Monday called it "incomprehensible" and "thought-provoking" that the EP election campaign had become a scene of "home policy skirmishes". "While we seek... [read complete entry]
May 04, 2009, 10:42 CET
Socialists to push constitutional amendment on hate speech
Hungary's governing Socialist party will initiate an amendment to the Constitution so as to ban Holocaust denial and hate speech and make them punishable by law, party leader Ildiko Lendvai told a May Day celebration in Budapest on Friday.... [read complete entry]
April 27, 2009, 07:48 CET
Socialists to submit bill banning Holocaust denial this week
Hungary's governing Socialist party will submit a bill next week aiming to make Holocaust denial punishable by law, the head of the party's executive board said on Saturday.... [read complete entry]
April 24, 2009, 12:30 CET
Jobbik dissociates itself from neo-Nazi "provocation"
The radical nationalist Jobbik party dissociates itself from speeches made at a Holocaust-denying skinhead demonstration last weekend, national daily Nepszabadsag said on Friday, citing a leader of the party.... [read complete entry]
April 21, 2009, 10:10 CET
Hungarian Guard members prosecuted for Holocaust denial
Budapest police have initiated legal procedures against two members of the paramilitary Hungarian Guard, following a demonstration where they made speeches denying the Holocaust, the police told MTI on Monday.... [read complete entry]
April 21, 2009, 10:06 CET
Minister initiates bill to criminalize Holocaust denial
Education and Culture Minister István Hiller initiated legislation that would criminalise Holocaust denial in Parliament on Monday.... [read complete entry]
April 15, 2009, 09:20 CET
Police battle protestors as thousands demonstrate around Parliament
A largely peaceful demonstration against the election of Gordon Bajnai as Prime Minister and in favour of early elections turned violent on Tuesday afternoon as some protesters tried to break through police lines.... [read complete entry]
April 06, 2009, 10:25 CET
Thousands protest in Budapest in favor of early elections
A crowd estimated at 25,000-60,000 converged on Heroes Square Sunday afternoon to demand early elections. The vast square was filled to overflowing, with people standing on the steps of the Fine Arts and Műcsarnok galleries, and a crowd extending along... [read complete entry]
February 02, 2009, 11:03 CET
Right-wing groups demonstrate against "gypsy crime"
Activists of the Magyar Gárda, the radical right-wing Jobbik Party and the self-styled paramilitary group Nemzeti Őrsereg (National Army of Guardsmen), held a demonstration in the village of Iván, near Sopron in western Hungary on Saturday to protest against soaring... [read complete entry]
January 29, 2009, 09:17 CET
Anti-Roma Magyar Gárda rally banned in NW Hungary
A local Hungarian police force has banned a rally planned by the Magyar Garda, a radical nationalist movement connected to the Jobbik party, in NW Hungary, a police official told MTI on Wednesday.... [read complete entry]
January 19, 2009, 10:01 CET
Banned Hungarian Guard holds unauthorized demonstration outside parliament
Some 350 members of the far-right Magyar Gárda met on Kossuth tér Saturday afternoon to protest a December court ruling banning the organisation. They were joined by several hundred supporters.... [read complete entry]
January 05, 2009, 11:40 CET
Roma protest Hungarian Guard poster campaign
Anti-Roma posters affixed by the far-right group the Magyar Gárda appeared in Rakamaz, Szabolcs county on Friday, prompting dozens of local Roma residents to converge on the main street armed with hoes and scythes.... [read complete entry]
December 24, 2008, 07:59 CET
Sólyom concerned right-wing radicals hurting Hungary's reputation
Though many people associate radical nationalist groups with Fascism and neo-Nazism, "...in Hungary it is no more than a right-wing radical movement," President Laszlo Solyom said in an interview carried in Tuesday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in which he voiced concern... [read complete entry]
December 17, 2008, 03:06 CET
PM applauds court ruling against Hungarian Guard
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany on Wednesday expressed pleasure over the court decision on dissolving the right-wing Hungarian Guard Association.... [read complete entry]
December 17, 2008, 02:32 CET
Suspect charged in attack on Gárda founder
Pest County police have launched proceedings after three burglars seriously assaulted Attila Szabó, one of the founding members of the Magyar Gárda, at his detached family house in Vecsés on Monday morning, also robbing cash and jewellery.... [read complete entry]
December 17, 2008, 10:04 CET
Court dissolves Hungarian Guard, claiming right-wing group insults Roma minority
The Budapest Municipal Court dissolved the right wing paramilitary Hungarian Guard, which is registered as a "tradition supporting and cultural association," in a Tuesday evening decision.... [read complete entry]
December 08, 2008, 12:08 CET
Hungarian Guard reportedly drawn into disputes over public administration
A growing number of Hungarians disgruntled about their interactions with the country's bureaucrats are threatening to report clerks to the Hungarian Guard, reports sFn.hu.... [read complete entry]
November 24, 2008, 02:16 CET
Roma groups say anti-Gypsy violence linked to rightist groups
Hungary's police have stepped up an investigation into a spate of attacks against Roma residents which have prompted concerns that the increase in violence against the Roma is connected to the rise in radical nationalism in the country.... [read complete entry]
November 12, 2008, 08:15 CET
National Roma Authority accused of abusing personal data
The National Roma Authority (OCÖ) mishandled personal data of 70,000 people when it handed over signatures collected against the Hungarian Guard to the Socialist Party (MSZP), writes Zoom.hu, based on a (print only) report in Magyar Nemzet. The conservative daily... [read complete entry]
November 04, 2008, 10:40 CET
Demonstration held outside Békéscsaba Slovak consulate
About 100 members of several right wing groups, including Movement for a Righter Hungary, and its paramilitary wing Hungarian Guard demonstrated in front of the Slovak consulate in Bekescsaba, SE Hungary, on Monday night.... [read complete entry]
October 27, 2008, 08:14 CET
Magyar Gárda inducts 400 new recruits
The Magyar Garda, the militia arm of the radical rightwing political party Jobbik, inducted 400 new recruits -- children among them -- in a ceremony in downtown Budapest on Saturday.... [read complete entry]
October 02, 2008, 12:05 CET
Hungarian Guard splitting into rival factions, Népszabadság claims
Following the resignation of Hungarian Guard national commissioner István Dósa and several other leading members, chaos has gripped the radical rightist group, writes government-friendly daily Népszabadság. The daily has written that there are now two guards, with each blaming the... [read complete entry]
September 25, 2008, 10:40 CET
Things going wrong on the right as more Hungarian Guard leaders step down
Several leading members of the Hungarian Guard have followed national commissioner István Dósa and resigned from their posts in the far-right paramilitary group, reports Népszabadság. Five top members have left the organization following Saturday's disappointing demonstrations.... [read complete entry]
September 22, 2008, 02:12 CET
Hungarian Guard's "general" resigns post in protest
István Dósa, the "general commander" of the far-right militia Magyar Gárda, has resigned, claiming that the leaders of the Jobbik party have betrayed the whole movement.... [read complete entry]
July 31, 2008, 12:21 CET
Fears as Guard enters police hunt for missing Hungarian in Ireland
Okay, so it's Garda not Gárda. But given all the hand-wringing about this, doesn't this seems like a pretty strange coincidence?... [read complete entry]
July 21, 2008, 08:03 CET
Magyar Garda face off against Roma in northeast town
No violence reported as protestors challenge recruiting drive by far-right group. [read complete entry]
May 07, 2008, 12:40 CET
February 01, 2008, 09:46 CET
Budapest city council condemns Magyar Gárda
A resolution initiated by mayor Gábor Demszky condemning the right-wing group Magyar Gárda was approved by Budapest city council yesterday. Demszky said the recent demonstration carried out by the "paramilitary organisation against Roma crime" served to intimidate Roma in Budapest.... [read complete entry]
January 18, 2008, 09:33 CET
District mayor asks Jobbik to cancel protest against "Gypsy crime"
Eighth District mayor József Csécsi on Thursday asked the far right Jobbik party to cancel its candlelight demonstration on Vas utca set for this evening. The demonstration - styled as a protest against "Gypsy crime" - is a response to... [read complete entry]
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