Hungary Neo-Nazis offer cash for info on Jewish protesters
A neo-Nazi Website in Hungary is offering money for
information about protesters that called for the arrest of a suspected war
criminal, it emerged on Sunday.
Kuruc.info promised 100,000 Forints ($450) to anyone who
provided data on demonstrators who called for trial of suspected Nazi
collaborator Laszlo Csatary outside his house near Budapest last week.
"We will distribute 100,000 forints among those who
send us the most useful information about the [participants]," a text
appearing on the website read. "75 thousands forints have been offered by
our Comrade Bela Varga who lives in America. Good hunting!"
The website, which is full of anti-Semitic imagery,
including a Nazi hammer crushing a Star of David, accused gatherers at the
rally organized by a Jewish student group of conspiring to "kill
Hungarians."
"They complain about various crimes when they are responsible
to corrupt our country into communism and later into capitalism," the text
read. "They are responsible for the death of many thousand Hungarians, for
the emigration of hundreds of thousands, for the killing of six million
fetuses, for the selling of the country not to speak about the genocide in
Palestine and the other crimes against humanity."
Last Thursday Hungarian authorities indicted Csatary for
involvement in the sending of 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz when he was police chief
of Kosice. The 97-year-old's whereabouts had been unknown since he fled Canada
in the 90s after his wartime history had been discovered. Nazi hunter Zuroff of
the Simon Wiesenthal Center found him in Hungary late last year and asked
prosecutors to act. Last week, Csatary was formally charged making headlines
around the world and apparently arousing the ire of sympathizers.
Zuroff on Sunday said the offer by Kuruc.info was an
attempt to intimidate protesters.
"Apparently, the Hungarian right-wing extremists
cannot bear the exposure of the criminals who committed crimes against humanity
against fellow Hungarian citizens during World War II who were inspired to do
so by the same anti-Semitic fascist ideology that they are currently trying to
disseminate in Hungary," he said.
He said several protesters including Andrea Gergely, one
of the organizers of the demonstration against Csatary, had received threats.
The Hungarian embassy in Israel on Sunday declined to
comment on the website.
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