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A Budapest court sentenced three far-right skinheads charged with premeditated racist attacks against several Roma in different villages in northeastern Hungary to life in prison on August 6. A fourth member of the group was sentenced to 13 years.
Between July 2008 and August 2009, the four men, all of whom were strong supporters of Debrecen football club, took part in grenade, gun and petrol bomb attacks on Roma homes, killing six people including one child, and seriously wounded five others.
For Népszabadság, the verdict takes into account the "racist motive” for the attacks — an aggravating circumstance that the Roma community fought to have acknowledged by the court.
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