Orban almost beaten in Strasbourg over ‘selling Hungary to Putin’: video

9 October 00:41

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s speech in Strasbourg was interrupted by shouts of “selling” Hungary to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. This was reported by the Hungarian media outlets Telex, HVG.hu and Hetek.

During the press conference, a man ran up to the table where Orban was sitting, threw fake money and shouted: “For how much did you betray the country, Mr Prime Minister?”

The man was grabbed by security guards, thrown to the floor and then taken out of the room.

During this, he continued to shout words that Orban had allegedly “sold the country to Putin and Xi Jinping”.

Orbán commented on the incident, saying that he now felt at home, and that this is how they react to him there.

He added that “Hungarian is a very direct language, but if we call a politician a scoundrel, it only means that we disagree with him”.

According to the Hungarian media, the man who interrupted the press conference was a member of the youth organisation of the Democratic Coalition party, Marton Gekicki. They admitted the involvement of their representative in the incident.

It is noted that the offender gained access to the event thanks to a pass issued by an opposition MEP.

As a reminder, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban went on an international tour immediately after Hungary took over the presidency of the European Union, which he calls a “peacekeeping mission”. First, he visited Kyiv for the first time in many years, then went to Moscow a day later, and also went as far as China. Orban labels his visit to China as the same “peace mission”.

At the same time, Orban continues to stubbornly mark his information materials with the hashtag and the mark #HU24EU, which means the Hungarian presidency of the European Union.

During his “tour”, Orban gave an interview to the German tabloid Bild, during which he stated that in the next 2-3 months, there would be more victims of the war in Ukraine than in the last six months. Read what such statements by the Hungarian leader may mean in view of yesterday’s large-scale rocket attack on Ukraine in the article by Kommersant Ukrainian Komersant.Info “What Orban’s ‘peacekeeping tour’ and his statements about the increase in the number of victims in Ukraine in the coming months may mean”

What is Orban up to and how to explain his unexpected “peacekeeping” activity? Political experts interviewed by Kommersant Ukrainian Komersant.Info are sceptical about the Hungarian leader’s real intentions and capabilities.

Дзвенислава Карплюк
Editor