Chief suspect in Roma killings confirms earlier confession to Galgagyörk attack

A police video recording of the main suspect of the multiple 2008-2009 Roma murders confessing to an attack committed with his brother and another accomplice in the village of Galgagyork on July 21, 2008 was presented at a court hearing on Tuesday.

The police video, taped on March 2, 2011, shows the suspect at the murder site re-enacting the attack on Roma homes in Galgagyork in northern Hungary. He named his brother Istvan Kiss and Zsolt Peto as his accomplices.

No one was hurt in the Galgagyork attacks.

Arpad Kiss confirmed at a Tuesday hearing of the Pest County Court a confession to the Galgagyork he made earlier.

Kiss and three other defendants are also charged with five counts of murder committed in nine brutal armed attacks against Roma homes in central and eastern Hungarian villages.

Six people died in the attacks, including a five-year-old boy, and five others suffered life-threatening wounds.

Kiss had admitted to participating in two of the attacks at an earlier hearing in April, but declined to testify at the time.

The court heard as a witness a Roma man who lives in one of the homes attacked in Galgagyork. He said he heard the sounds of shots being fired and men jumping off a truck, as well as a vehicle passing by their house slowly.

His wife testified to waking up to the sounds of shots and said the window had been shot through with a few bullets hitting the wall and the children's bunk bed.

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