Police arrested eight neo-Nazi skinheads here last weekend for beating up two Gypsy men at a tram stop.
The youths, ages 19 and 20, had in their possession Nazi armbands, leaflets with swastikas and switchblades.
According to the chief of police, this group of skinheads is also suspected of putting up posters displaying swastikas and bearing the slogan “Out with foreigners.”
The posters were seen last week in Budapest’s Castle District, a United Nations World Heritage historic site.
Plastering such posters is considered under Hungarian law to be a crime against a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. The eight youths have been charged with criminal wrongdoing.
During the last two years in Hungary, criminal proceedings have been initiated against 111 people involved in 11 racist-nationalist offenses.
According to a recent poll, ethnic Hungarians immigrating to Hungary from the Transylvania region of Romania are particularly hated by local Hungarians. The immigrants are more hated than Hungary’s Jews, the poll showed.
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