Police Question Budapest Mayor Over Pride Parade

The Associated Press reports: The liberal mayor of Hungary’s capital was questioned by police Friday over accusations of helping organize an LGBTQ+ Pride event that the country’s right-wing populist government had sought to ban. The Pride march in Budapest on June 28 was the largest event of its kind in the country’s history, according to … The post Police Question Budapest Mayor Over Pride Parade appeared first on Joe.My.God..

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Police Question Budapest Mayor Over Pride Parade

The Associated Press reports:

The liberal mayor of Hungary’s capital was questioned by police Friday over accusations of helping organize an LGBTQ+ Pride event that the country’s right-wing populist government had sought to ban. The Pride march in Budapest on June 28 was the largest event of its kind in the country’s history, according to organizers, despite Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government earlier passing an anti-LGBTQ+ law that banned such events.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony arrived at Hungary’s National Bureau of Investigation Friday morning where a crowd of around 200 of his supporters had gathered. Before entering the investigators’ headquarters under police escort, he told supporters that freedom for Hungarian society was at stake. “A month ago at Budapest Pride, very, very many of us told the whole world that neither freedom nor love can be banned in Budapest,” Karácsony said. “And if it cannot be banned, then it cannot be punished.”

Read the full article. The mayor wore a rainbow Budapest shirt to the police headquarters.

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