The victims are Gypsies.
If this is not an escalation from the frindges of the far-right, thewn what... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
What I wrote was based on the first reports I read yesterday. Now I read the attack was on a single home, the Molotov cocktail was thrown, and the shots were fired across the window.
Also, earlier today there was speculation about a criminal background, but it was judged unrealistic today -- the racist motivation remains. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Two Roma die in Hungary shooting
Police in Hungary are investigating the deaths of two people in a shooting that a Roma (Gypsy) member of the European Parliament is calling a racist attack. The victims were a Roma man and a woman in their 40s, who were shot through the window of a house in the village of Nagycsecs, in north-eastern Hungary. Petrol bombs were thrown inside before the shots were fired, police said.
Police in Hungary are investigating the deaths of two people in a shooting that a Roma (Gypsy) member of the European Parliament is calling a racist attack.
The victims were a Roma man and a woman in their 40s, who were shot through the window of a house in the village of Nagycsecs, in north-eastern Hungary.
Petrol bombs were thrown inside before the shots were fired, police said.
It's really frightening that behaviour can escalate to those levels. Such irrational persecution. This is why I wish there was an easier way to get the ignorant masses to grasp the real dangers that the far right present, without it being written off as loony left hysteria. Ad astra per aspera
