Hungary - Hungarians rally against memorial’s desecration

Thousands of Hungarians have paid their respects to Holocaust victims whose memorial was desecrated with pigs’ feet.

In the largest rally, thousands came Thursday to the banks of the Danube River to show that the forces of democracy will not be intimidated by the rise of neo-Nazism.

Leaders of all the parliamentary political parties joined many prominent writers and artists at the rally, which took place two days after the desecration. A government spokesman said Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai was outraged but could not attend because of a mandatory heads of government meeting in Brussels, but earlier he placed a flower at the memorial.

Fidesz, the dominant parliamentary opposition, formally condemned the attack.

Source: http://jta.org/

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