The case of the arson of the building of the Union of Hungarians in Uzhgorod: the Poles turn the arrows on the Germans
A citizen of Poland, who in his homeland is accused of involvement in the arson of the building of the Union of Hungarians in Uzhgorod, stated in court that he allegedly received instructions about the attack from a German journalist who worked as a consultant to a member of the German parliament from the right-wing party “Alternative for Germany,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "
About it Radio Liberty reports.
28-year-old Michal Prokopowicz told the Krakow court that German journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter allegedly instructed him to attack the office of the Hungarian Cultural Association in Uzhgorod on February 4, 2018.
Prokopowicz is one of three Polish suspects with links to the far-right Phalanx movement who appeared in court in Krakow on January 14.
Ochsenreiter, 42, has ties to Polish right-wing activists including Mateusz Piskorski, the founder of the Zmiana party, who was arrested in 2016 on suspicion of spying for Russia and China.
Ochsenreiter is the editor of the German magazine Zuerst! (First of all!), in recent months he worked as a consultant to Markus Fronchmeier, a member of the German parliament from the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, which advocated the lifting of EU sanctions against the Russian Federation.
Ochsenreiter himself had previously denied all allegations of his involvement in the crime. Polish authorities have not yet brought any charges against him.
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