An on-going internal police investigation released its first report:

the report on the first riot, the storming of the state TV building on the night of 18/19 September. The names of those responsible are blackened out, but besides and above material and training insufficiencies, it is clear the commanders were totally inept. A map of one stage:

• MTV=state TV,
• TÖMEG=crowd (on-lookers, thousands),
• "Támogató mag"=supporting core (those cheering on, 100-200),
• "Nagyon agresszív támadó csoportok"=very aggressive attacking groups (rioters, 50-100);
• red is policemen,
• you'll recognise the symbols of water cannons.

You see the symbol of those trapped in the building, and you see that a supporting force tried to get there circling the building -- but only on one side, and their water cannon's water ran out...

The report says

• police leaders failed to make real action plans and acted ad-hoc, their plans seemed the reproduction of blueprints and contained false data;
• the TV building was missing on the list of buildings to protect, despite protesters' prior threats;
• information flow to lower-ranked was insufficient, most glaringly, an operation commander for the units around the TV building was chosen but none of the unit leaders learnt of that, and he himself didn't know who everyone should be under his command and gave up trying;
• most damagingly, forces were sent uncoordinated, leading to disintegration of units one by one, and even to silly episodes like a unit holding back the rioters on the front stairs being water-gunned by a unit inside the building...

Evidence on the police beating-up of an opposition MP.

As I reported, on 23 October, police pursued rioters 'into' the dispersing crowd of a rally by right-populist main opposition party Fidesz, and in the course of this, a Fidesz leader, Márusz Révész was rubber-bulleted unconscious and/or beaten with batons.

This case developed into an ugly controversy. On one hand, after the initial barely self-aware hospital interview, Révész switched into politician mode, and sought to get the most out of his case -- including wearing his bandages when it was no longer necessary, leading to accusations of faking from the government side. Meanwhile, selective leaks of police tapes implied that police in fact tried to hold back the crowd and called Fidesz leaders to get their protesters out of the way, leading to paranoid government-side claims that Fidesz wanted trouble on their crowd so that police and government can be demonised.

However, now a foreigner sent an amateur video to the attorney of Révész, which confirms the version witnesses told to Révész (who himself suffers from amnesia): it reportedly shows Révész approaching the policemen and protesting while showing his Member of Parliament card (which ensures immunity by law), but the policemen surround him and then beat him up, stopping only when a photographer approached.

Was someone killed on 23 October?

On the last day of riots, rumours spread that a young girl died from the effects of tear gas. Internet news site Index tried to track down the origin, and found it: a man who claimed his daughter died in the events, and got a compensation of €1,200 from his Austro-Hungarian firm. The man wouldn't tell details to the press, and there is no trace of the dead girl in hospital or cemetery records, so this is most likely an insurance fraud...

I note I am personally very dismayed at the law-and-order-ist turn of the nominal Left and its supporters -- including close friends and relatives, with whom I had the most bizarre heated debates... But this is what you get in a 'cold civil war'.