2016 Budapest bombing
The perpetrator some minutes before the explosion
LocationOktogon in Budapest
Date24 September 2016
22:36:18 (UTC+1)
TargetPolice officers
Attack type
Bombing
WeaponsNail bomb
Deaths0
Injured2
PerpetratorLászló Gergely P.[1]

The 2016 Budapest bombing occurred on 24 September when a young man detonated a nail bomb to kill two patrolling police officers. A policeman and a policewoman (the latter, coincidentally, the poster face of the Hungarian police's recruiting campaign) suffered injuries but survived the attack. After the incident the police chief in charge announced a full-scale investigation and promised to give 10 million HUF to the ones who reported the perpetrator. According to Zsolt Molnár, the chairman of the National Security Commission of the Hungarian Parliament, the attack unlikely had anything to do with other terror-related incidents in Europe in 2016.[2]

Perpetrator

The alleged perpetrator, László Gergely P., was caught on 19 October 2016 by the Counter Terrorism Centre in Keszthely. The 23-year-old man is a Hungarian citizen without any kind of criminal antecedents; his father was earlier the mayor of Karmacs, a small village in Zala county. According to prosecutors, he planned to blackmail the Hungarian Ministry of Interior for €1 million.[3]

Trial

The perpetrator's trial started on January 31, 2018.[4] On September 12, he was sentenced to prison for life with the possibility of parole after 30 years.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Nyilas Gergely (20 October 2016). "Volt előjele, hogy a karmacsi férfi fog robbantani". Index.hu. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Teréz körút: muszlim terroristáról szó sincs" (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 29 September 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  3. ↑ hh (25 August 2017). "Egymillió eurót követelt a Belügyminisztériumtól a Teréz körúti robbantó". www.index.hu. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Nyilas, Gergely (31 January 2018). "Visszavonta vallomását a Teréz körúti robbantó". Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Gergely, Nyilas (12 September 2018). "Utolsó szó nélkül ítélték életfogytiglanra a Teréz körúti robbantót". index.hu. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2019.

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