Hungary banned a rally organized under the slogan “Give Gas” that was planned to coincide with a Holocaust memorial march after a Jewish group complained that it amounted to a call for genocide.
Budapest police will deploy “all legal means” to stop the rally by bikers, whose “provocative” name and timing is “an offense,” according to the statement. Prime Minister Viktor Orban had called for the ban, saying the protest was an affront to human dignity, state news service MTI reported today.
The name of the Apr. 21 rally, which would pass in front of the capital’s main synagogue, “unequivocally refers to the tortuous deaths of more than 400,000 of our compatriots killed in Auschwitz with poisonous gas and is a call to repeat these harrowing deeds,” Hungarian Jewish group Mazsihisz said in a statement on its website. The bikers, who describe themselves as “patriotic,” called it a “simple demonstration,” according to a posting on their Facebook page.
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