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Roma Murder Series

  • Besenyszög--Firearm theft

    Hungarian Language Report Three of the suspects--Arpad K., Istvan K. and Zsolt P.--stole a local hunter's seven fire arms, including several automatic weapons. The suspects masquaraded as police officers during the robbery.
  • Debrecen--shots are fired at an Asylum Centre

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    Perpetrators have target practice on Roma homes; communities

    The perpetrators began various tests on their newly acquired weaponry, beginning with shots, and escalating to the use of moltav cocktails, and actually striking their victims.
  • Galgyagyörök--3 shots fired at a Roma house; no injuries

  • Piricse--Molotov-cocktail, woman shot in leg

  • Nyiradony--shots fired on a Roma house, no injuries

  • Tarnadob--Molotov-cocktails were shots on Roma houses, no reported injuries

  • Nagycsécse--moltav cocktail and shots fired, killing two Roma

  • Alsózsolca--shots fired, 19-year-old Roma man suffers life threatening gunshot wound

  • Tatárszentgyörgy--father and son murdered following an arson attack

    While escaping from a violent arson attack on their home, a Roma father and his five-year-old son are shot in cold blood by the perpetrators. This represents one of the many instances of an investigatorial blunder, as the authorities initially indicated the cause of death was smoke inhalation, whereas the victims were clearly violently executed with a firearm. The detectives were disciplined, and National Police finally offered a 10,000,000 HUF $45,000 USD) reward for capture.
  • Tiszalök--man murdered in cold-blood in front of his home

    Hungarian News The police finally begin to piece together the obvious connection between the violence that rocked the area. The police finally begin to discuss the racial motivation behind the attacks. However, György Szilvásy, who was the Hungarian National Security Minister doesn’t think these crimes has any relation with racism.
  • Kisléta--Perpetrators shoot and kill a woman and shoot her 13-year-old daughter in the face

  • Debrecen--Authorities finally arrest the alleged perpetrators