It happened that a father with his children in the car was driving through a village street, when a girl ran on the street. The car braked and the girl was barely hurt. However, a gathering of relatives and neighbours thought someone was ran over, pulled the man from the car, and beat him to death.

The perpetrators were Roma, thus all wings of the Hungarian far-right seized upon the crime, in particular the then still dwarf (but now double-digits in polls...) Jobbik, with its Hungarian Guard paramilitary.

The actual legal treatment of the case faced a problem: all the accused held to an omertà. All that became known about the background was that another small girl was ran over and killed there fifteeen years earlier (a circumstance that wasn't accepted by court as reason to consider acting on impulse as mitigating factor). Still, eight were sentenced to long prison terms on first instance.

Upon second instance, some of the accused broke and changed their testmonies, but did not say enough to reveal the precise course of events -- all that became clear was that the real ringleaders were the 6th and 7th order accused, who now got life imprisonment on second term.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}