Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2013 (25. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

2013-08-16 / 31. szám

AMERICAN Hungarian Journal Court hands life sentences in Roma murders case A Budapest court handed down three life sentences in the trial of multiple Roma murders carried out in 2008 and 2009. The court declared that all attacks had been'motivated by racist hatred; leading politicians widely wel­comed the verdict. The life sentences were handed down to Árpád Kiss, István Kiss and Zsolt Pető, the three chief defendants. The court sentenced the fourth defendant, István Csontos, to 13 years in prison. All sentence can be appealed. The Kiss brothers and Peto stood accused of committing nine attacks against Roma families living on the outskirts of small, rural villages in central and east­ern Hungary between July 2008 and August 2009. Csontos par­ticipated in the last two attacks as driver. Six people died in the attacks, including a five-year-old boy, while five others suffered critical injuries. According to the charges, the perpetrators fired 78 shots, threw 11 Molotov cocktails and endangered the safety of 55 people. In one of the attacks the perpetrators set fire to a house at night and fired shots at the family trying to escape from their burning home. Accepting the prosecutor’s argument, the court established that all attacks had been moti­vated by racist hatred. “It is morally unacceptable and intolerable in any country that people organise gangs for committing crimes with a view to curbing and intimidating an ethnic community,” chief judge László Miszori said. Not even the defendants denied that they had racist motivations, he said. Human resources minister Zoltán Balog declared that racism and discrimination should never be tolerated, adding that the sen­tences confirmed that no perpe­trator of racially motivated crimes could escape punishment. MTI Hungarian Roma queue for water in heatwave after pumps shut down Thousands of Roma have been queueing in a Hungarian town for water during a record heatwave after their mayor shut down many of the public pumps on which the impoverished community depends. With temperatures peaking at 40C (104 Fahrenheit) for several days, the Hungarian government intervened on Wednesday, order­ing Mayor Pal Fürjes to restore full water supplies to slums in the northeastern town of Ozd where the Roma live. Local Roma expressed sar­castic disgust about the mayor’s decision, which they said had been made without any warning. “I can fill this bucket up with my own spit before this trickle does,” said György Kiss as he stood at a pump that remained open but had little water pressure. “We thank the mayor very much. Next time he should shut down our air supply, too,” said Kiss, a father of five sons. Roma suffer discrimination and persecution across much of Europe. On Thesday, a Hungar­ian court jailed four neo-Nazis for killing Roma families in a spree of racist violence in 2008 and 2009 that shocked the country and led to accusations that police had failed to protect the minority. Roma often live in miser­able conditions without power or mains water. This forces them to trek to public pumps with buckets to collect water for washing and cooking. However, Ozd’s municipal government closed more than half the town’s pumps and restricted pressure to others, accusing local people of abusing the free supply by spraying water around. This had left the town with a 12 mil­lion forint ($53,400) annual bill it cannot afford, it said. Interior Minister Sándor Printer told Fürjes on Wednesday to reopen all the pumps. “(The government) called upon Ozd’s mayor to suspend the municipal decision and restore the original state of affairs due to the extreme temperature,” he said in a state­ment. Roma make up 7 percent of Hungary’s 10 million people, and a third of Ozd’s population. They have suffered particularly since Communism collapsed in 1989 as much of the region’s heavy industry has shut down, leaving most jobless. Fürjes, who is from the center-right Fidesz party that rules Hungary, said he needed to halve the town’s water bill. The Las Vegas-i ingatlanok! Házak $30,000-tól Apartment $20,000-tól Most érdemes befektetni! Évente több, mint 30% nyereség is elérhető! AUCTIONS. BANK REPO. FLIPS INVESTMENTS. REO. RENTALS Peter Banyai hard money loans-hitel "OO" 35% DOWN, AVAILABLE! 702-354-0332 Email Box702@yahoo.com Hívjon bizalommal! ★ fcCFAé CERTIFIED FORECLOSURE AGENT Highest Quality Care at the Best Price! Elderly, Rehabilitating, Children, Newborn Beszélünk magyarul is! Ingyenes konzultáció otthonában. 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Radies, 56 and himself in poor health, now lives alone and relies on neighbours to fetch buckets of water several times a day to help him through the heatwave. “It’s crazy that they shut down the wáter,” Radies said as half­­naked children ran around in the dirt nearby. “They are right in that the kids used to splash and spray a lot of water, but now we are forced to go far further to other pumps.” Many Roma have sought alter­native ways to supply their houses with heat, water and electricity. Kriszta Bodis, an activist who has worked with the Ozd Roma for decades, said water was just one of several similar problems affecting the poorest. In winter, they got into trouble for stealing wood to keep warm while in the summer, it was water that caused problems, she said. “The city council has tried to satisfy voters’ needs that are not rooted in reality,” Bodis said. “They want to stop the Roma from stealing water, but nobody is stealing anything. 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