The Hungarian Counter-Terrorism Centre has raided a pub in Pest, where young people were planning an armed attack on 23 October, the commemoration of the 1956 events, according to US intelligence. The six young people detained included a mixture of boys and girls.
According to Telex, a group of young people was preparing to carry out an armed action on the upcoming national holiday of 23 October. The US Secret Service brought this to the attention of the Hungarian authorities about two weeks ago.
In possession of the information, the Counter-Terrorism Centre raided the Legenda Pub in the 16th district of Budapest, arresting and detaining six young people.
The detained young people were a mixture of girls and boys, but none of them were found to be carrying sharp weapons, only airsoft and deactivated weapons.
The owner of the Legenda Pub told Index that the youths were not yet inside the club but were on their way when the SWAT team intercepted them. They could see what was happening through the window, but they did not know what was happening.
Responding to a question from Index on Monday about the planned armed attack, the government information centre (KTK) said that over the weekend, the Hungarian services received information from their US counterpart that young people were discussing in an online group about a planned operation involving protected persons in the near future.
It also turned out that the photos and information shared in this forum during the monitoring revealed that the young people organising the action were planning to acquire and use weapons. “In view of the international events of recent months, when several leading politicians have been attacked with weapons, the Hungarian services and the Counter-Terrorism Centre are paying special attention to monitoring such information and taking the necessary measures”.
The fate of the arrested young people is not yet clear, but we will be sure to share it with our readers as soon as we have new information.
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Maybe Fidesz could take a one-day break from its’ anti-American diatribes and send a message of thanks to David Pressman but that might be too much to ask for.
This will be twisted by the FIDESZ media to suggest a lefty liberal attack on the Orban government. Oh and organised by Magyar Peter.
So a bunch of kids fooling around with some AirSoft. Wooooooooooooooooow. What a scoop.
This is the same U.S. intelligence that claimed Saddam had W.M.D.s or that Assad was using biological weapons, and has failed to prevent dozens of foreign and domestic terrorist attacks resulting in mass casualties even though the attackers were almost always “known” to them and “on their radar.”
What a joke.
@michaelsteiner – let´s withhold judgment until we have facts and data? Anything at this point is conjecture…
Steiner seemed to miss the point were it says they were planning to acquire and use weapons. It was nipped in the bud.