Following the incident, Hunor Kelemen, president of the Hungarian Democratic Alliance of Romania (RMDSZ), called for action by Romanian state leaders and punishment of those responsible in a video posted on Facebook on Friday.
“So far and no further”, said the President of the RMDSZ in a video message, reacting to the brutal abuse of a 15-year-old gymnast from Lugoj by his Romanian peers at a training camp “just because he is Hungarian”.
The abused boy was tied up, shaved bald, beaten, given alcohol to drink and ashes thrown on his head, and made to mime sexual games,
the politician wrote in his post.
He said that as a father and as a leader of the Hungarian community, he finds what happened to the 15-year-old Hungarian boy unacceptable and “shocking”, Index writes.
The boy’s sin was being Hungarian
He said that it was the anti-Hungarian campaign of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) and the fact that Romanian society had tolerated the hate-mongering for years without a word.
He called on his Romanian political colleagues and the leaders of the state to condemn the incident, because “this cannot be left without words or consequences, anti-Hungarianism must be repressed”.
He said he expects a “very swift” response from the head of state, the prime minister, the interior minister and the justice minister, and an investigation into the events by the national leadership of the gymnastics federation.
On behalf of the RMDSZ and on his own behalf, Hunor Kelemen expressed his condolences to the abused boy and his family and promised help for reparation.
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