Despite the fact that the authorities have not intervened against the participants, the police continues to investigate the organizers of the event, which was prohibited under the amendment to the Act on the Assembly.
In the building of the Hungarian National Investigation Office of the Emergency Police (KR NNI), Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony began questioning on Friday morning, who was summoned as a suspect in the investigation of the organizers of the June Budapest Pride. Referring to the Hang.hu server, the TASR newsletter in Budapest informs about it.
The server pointed out that although the participants of the march, which essentially turned into an anti -government protest, despite previous threats, in the end there was no procedure, the police are still investigating the organizers of the march, within which the mayor was summoned.
Demonstration to support the mayor
Two hundred people gathered in front of the police building on a demonstration called “We are behind Gergely Karácsony!”. The crowd also appeared chairwoman of the opposition party Democratic Coalition (DK) Klára Dobrevová, Mayor of the Budapest district of Erzsébetváros Péter Niedermüller and an independent parliamentary deputy Bence Tordai.
Karácsony thanked the demonstrators for support before the interrogation. “This story is not about me, but about whether Budapest and Hungary love freedom enough,” he said.
March and its disabled
On June 28, hundreds of thousands of people from approximately 30 countries attended by rainbow flags and banners criticizing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
The police banned the march on the basis of an amendment to the Act on the Assembly and Related Protection of Children, which the Hungarian Parliament approved in March.
In response to a ban on the ban, Karácsony announced Pride for a city event organized by the Town Hall and insisted that no participant could be sanctioned. City events do not require police approval and, according to Budapest deputies, they are an exception to the law.
