Secret service knew in advance about attack on gay marchers
The secret services had informed police ahead of time which groups would try to disrupt the Gay Pride parade on Saturday, state secretary Imre Iváncsik told InfoRádió on Monday.
Certain individuals were not detained in advance, he said, as this would not be democratic, and taking them to court is the real solution. The counter-demonstrators included football hooligans, followers of radical right-wing activist László Toroczkai, and several groups known from the 2006 protests on Kossuth tér, Iváncsik said.
A court is expected to try the 57 people detained on Saturday in a fast-track procedure from today. The charges include use of violence, hooliganism, possession of tools endangering public order and resisting police. Proceedings have been launched against six people who apparently intended to throw chemical substances at the parade from a rooftop on Andrássy út.
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