Stop Hungary's far-right militias

In certain underdeveloped areas of eastern Hungary the extreme right-wing party Jobbik and its paramilitary militias stand in direct rivalry with the police. The publicist Balázs Stépán warns that things could get out of hand in the left-liberal weekly paper Heti Világgazdaság: "The words that everyone could see coming were officially uttered by the extreme right Jobbik party during an anti-Roma march in the north-eastern town of Hejőszalonta. ... The high-ranking Jobbik politician Árpád Miklós repeatedly stated that the government must come to its senses and strengthen the police. Failing that, 'we will organise ourselves and strip them of their power by force'. ... According to Jobbik, public order has completely broken down in eastern Hungary, the governing Fidesz party has been caught in the nets of civil rights activists and supports the Roma. As a result it can no longer maintain order and protect the Hungarian population, Jobbik claims. ... In the meantime the party speaks not only of 'Gypsy crime' but also of 'Gypsy terror'."

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