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Orbán faces accusations of staged “false-flag” gas attack, Magyar asks to be included in Defence Council session
Earlier today, reports emerged of a potentially explosive incident at critical gas infrastructure connecting Hungary and Serbia. In response, Prime Minister Orbán Viktor has convened an extraordinary session of the National Defence Council on Sunday afternoon. Péter Magyar also asked to be included in the session.
Tisza Party leader calls for inclusion in emergency Defence Council
Péter Magyar, leader of the opposition Tisza Party, reacted quickly on social media, demanding to be included in the Defence Council’s emergency meeting. He argued that regardless of who orchestrated the event, the situation would ultimately fall to the Tisza government to resolve after the upcoming elections.
In a Facebook post, Magyar claimed that multiple sources had warned of potential provocations ahead of the 12 April parliamentary elections, allegedly orchestrated with the assistance of Serbia and Russia. “Several have publicly indicated that ‘something will happen’ at the gas pipeline in Serbia around Easter, just one week before Hungary’s elections. And so it did,” he wrote.
The story, if you missed it:
- Explosives found near Serbia-Hungary gas pipeline, army seals roads near border
- Orbán convenes emergency Defence Council, experts warn false-flag operation possible in Serbia before elections
Claims of Russian and Serbian involvement
Magyar suggested that these events may represent a “false-flag” operation intended to stir fear among the Hungarian public. He criticised the Prime Minister for what he described as deliberate panic-inducing tactics, allegedly guided by Russian advisors.
“If Orbán and his propaganda use this provocation for campaign purposes, it will be a public admission that this was a premeditated false-flag operation,” he added.
The Tisza Party leader emphasised that Hungarian citizens’ trust in domestic security services has been eroded in recent weeks due to previous intelligence failures. He promised that under a Tisza-led government, Hungary would restore order, peace, and security, ensuring the country’s safety within the European Union and NATO frameworks. “The culture of fear propagated by Orbán will be replaced by freedom and confidence,” Magyar wrote.
What happened?
As we reported earlier today, security units discovered two large backpacks containing highly destructive explosives and detonation fuses just a few hundred metres from the critical gas infrastructure linking Serbia and Hungary. As a result, Viktor Orbán announced he would convene an extraordinary Defence Council meeting for Sunday afternoon.
National security expert Péter Buda claimed on his Substack that some circles had been discussing a possible false-flag scenario involving Hungarian-linked critical infrastructure on the Serbian side of the border even before the discovery became public.
A similar hypothetical scenario had also been outlined days earlier by Russia expert András Rácz, who described Serbia as a theoretically convenient location for such an operation in a fictionalised analytical post.
Fidesz is falling flat in an amateur hour desperation attempt to influence voters.
Poor Peter feeling left out of the real men politics club, maybe he’s crying into his little dolly of himself.
So you do not feel how weird this event is? 😂😂😂😂
timing is amazing
Be careful that, without sufficient evidence, you draw firm conclusions.
In my experience, major elections are full of subterfuge, by parties on both sides.
While I’m sitting here writing in London and haven’t visited the scene of the alleged discovery, I can categorically state with full confidence that no one has tried to demolish the gas pipeline. If anyone had truly wanted to, they’d have tried it years ago, viz. Nord Stream. While I was expecting a false flag operation of some sort, I’d have thought that they’d go for something for audacious, more credible, more anxiety inducing, where the actual stakes were higher. An explosive filled rucksack found a few hundred metres from the pipeline isn’t it. Had it detonated, I consider it unlikely it would have affected the pipeline at all. It’s striking watching images from the Iran war where missles have been carefully targeted causing localised devastation while a few metre either side there’s no obvious signs an explosion has happened at all.
I’m having more than a little difficulty understanding how any Fidesz enemy would benefit from something like this. I guess I’m just not very creative. It seems to me if it was Ukraaine, the pipeline would have a big hole in it now. The Tisza party has nothing to gain by doing something like this. So, pick a guilty party. That’s what Fidesz is doing.
Quite. Considering Ukraine now has one of the world’s most formidable armed forces and is capable of precision bombing of Russian airfields and oil refineries even 1000km from their border, it strikes me as deeply unlikely that they’d employ guerilla tactics to blow up a pipeline using explosive rucksacks, moreover to place them 200m away. Why not send an explosive packed drone which is their field of expertise? Quite apart from which, their hands are rather full with defending their country.