{"id":1207,"date":"2014-11-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/21-11-2014-fidesz-mayor-ferenc-haszillo-agitates-against-rroma\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:50:32","slug":"21-11-2014-fidesz-mayor-ferenc-haszillo-agitates-against-rroma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/21-11-2014-fidesz-mayor-ferenc-haszillo-agitates-against-rroma\/","title":{"rendered":"21.11.2014 Fidesz mayor Ferenc Haszill\u00f3 agitates against Rroma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Ferenc Haszill\u00f3, the recently \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tre-elected mayor of the Hungarian city Kecel, has come under massive attack in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe Hungarian media and politics, and has announced his resignation from \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toffice. The reasons for the furore around Haszill\u00f3 are \u00a0a recordings of statements, which he made \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin 2012 after an official interview with the local television. The utterances, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnot meant for publication, include massive defamations of Rroma and Jews, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcriticism of the ruling party and great sympathy for right-wing extremist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tviews: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cAn employee of the local \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttelevision, who wishes to remain anonymous, confirmed Magyar Narancs the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tauthenticity of the recording, but explained it should never have become public \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2013 it was leaked with the malicious intention to cause a scandal and bring the Mayor \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand city into disrepute. <\/em>[&#8230;] <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Regarding \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe Roma, he [Ferenc Haszill\u00f3] says:<\/em> <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cdirty, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tworthless assholes, who grow up in piss, are as stupid as animals and come to the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmunicipality if they need a little firewood;<\/em> <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I wish I could go out and kick them in the face,<\/em> <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">the Jobbik is probably right about that.(&#8230;) One can not allow that they freeze \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto death (laughter) &#8230;<\/em> <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The truth is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat should they all die<\/em> (&#8230;) <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe state also &#8230; on this subject I totally agree with Jobbik, kiss my ass &#8230; \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tone should chop them into shithouse.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 The context that led to the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpublication of the recordings is still unclear. Although Haszill\u00f3 has now \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tapologised for his comments, they are evidence of a great sympathy for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmisanthropic views that degrade certain ethnics groups and declare them \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinferior. Such statements meet the statement of facts of demagoguery and racism \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto the full extent and should be punished accordingly (Pusztaranger 2014).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pusztaranger (2014) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFidesz-B\u00fcrgermeister: \u201cLiberale exekutieren\u201d, Hetze gegen Juden und Roma. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Pusztaranger online <\/em>vom 22.10.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/pusztaranger.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/22\/fidesz-burgermeister-liberale-exekutieren-hetze-gegen-juden-und-roma\/\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/pusztaranger.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/22\/fidesz-burgermeister-liberale-exekutieren-hetze-gegen-juden-und-roma\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferenc Haszill\u00f3, the recently re-elected mayor of the Hungarian city Kecel, has come under massive attack in the Hungarian media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[92,63,24,23,133],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-eastern-europe","tag-discrimination","tag-racism","tag-roma","tag-rroma","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}