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| Hungarian police connect Roma murders, officers reproached |
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| Budapest, February 27 (MTI) - Hungarian police have established
connections between recent attacks against Roma, some of which ended
in deaths, director of the National Investigation Office told the
press on Friday. |
Investigating officers will face disciplinary procedures for the
mistakes they made in securing the scene in the most recent murder
of a Roma man and his son, the results of a report published on
Friday said.
"Evidence so far discovered suggest that we are dealing with a
series of crimes, with perpatrators from the same circle of
criminals," Attila Petofi of the National Investigation Office said.
He said that altogether seven attacks have been examined in
which four Roma were killed.
In a connecting development, police has apprehended and will
soon question a suspect in a hand grenade attack on a Roma family of
five in Pecs (S Hungary) in November last year, in which the parents
were killed, senior officer at the homicide unit of the National
Police Headquarters Istvan Hazi said.
In the recent murder of a man and his five-year-old son, police
officers were found at fault in their actions when initially called
to the scene of the crime, head of Pest County police Sandor Armos
said. The Roma man and his son were shot dead while fleeing from
their house which had been set on fire in C Hungary early this week.
Armos said a report completed on Friday found that the officers
failed to conduct a thorough search for hot clues around the murder
scene. They passed by the bullets fired from the killing weapon
which were later discovered just a few meters from the house. He
said, however, that police were not guilty of not treating the case
as murder initially, as both the medical and fire experts at the
site gave them reports indicating no evidence of murder.
Roma organisations have charged that police had been inapt in
handling the case as initially they failed to treat the case as a
murder.
Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has asked for an investigation
to see whether police action was inadequate regarding attacks
against the Roma population and has stepped up the police force in
areas where clashes of Roma and non-Roma groups were causing
problems.
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