Mayor of Budapest Gergely Karácsony announced on Thursday that he was conducted as a suspect in an investigation focused on the organizers of LGBTQ+ rights demonstrations from the end of June, which turned into an anti -government protest. His office said the opposition mayor would summon the police next week. According to Reuters report, TASR reports this.
On 28 June, hundreds of thousands of people from approximately 30 countries participated in the pride march of Budapest Pride, who waved the rainbow flags and banners criticizing Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The police banned the march based on the amendment to the Assembly Act, which the Hungarian Parliament approved in March. The aim of the Fidesz government party was, according to the Hungarian media prevented the proceedings of the Pride marches with referring to the protection of children.
Karácsony in response to the prohibition declared Pride for City event organized by the Town Hall and insisted that no participant can be sanctioned so. City events do not require police approval and, according to Budapest deputies, they are an exception to the law.
“I have become suspicious, and if it is in this country the price we have to pay for advocating the freedom of ourselves and the others, then I am even proud of it,” He wrote Karácsony in his post on Facebook.
Orbán had previously warned against the legal consequences for the organization and participation in the march. However, according to Reuters, the police said it would not prosecute the participants. According to information portal 444.hu, however He is currently conducting an investigation against an unknown perpetrator.
Critics of the Prime Minister of the Hungarian Government have marked a prohibition of pride marches as part of a wider intervention against democratic freedoms before the next year’s elections, In which Orbán will face a strong opposition opponent, Reuters noted.
