Tension flares between Roma, extremists in Hungary


Members of far-right, nationalist groups attend a protest against criminal attacks caused by youth, in Torokszentmiklos, Hungary, May 21, 2019. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

TOROKSZENTMIKLOS, Hungary (Reuters) - Several hundred radical nationalists, including hard-line extremists, protested in a small town in eastern Hungary on Tuesday against what they call “Roma crime”.

In the town of Torokszentmiklos, east of Budapest, a few hundred Roma, mostly men, held a counter-protest commemorating the killing of innocent Roma in a series of shootings a decade ago that traumatised the country and helped give rise to the political far right.

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