Activists sang for homeless at the Basilica when the security dispatched them – VIDEO

Activists of A Város Mindenkié (The City is For Everyone) and BKK (Bennfentes Kívülállók Közkórusa) performed a mutual singing at Saint Stephen’s Basilica on Friday as part of the demonstration chain. They were singing Christmas carols with rewritten lyrics to draw people’s attention to those who spend the Holidays outside on the streets on their own. The chorus that gathered under the #stopkilakoltatás (#stopeviction) campaign did not win the liking of the security guards of the advent market at Saint Stephen’s Basilica as they tried to dispatch them.

Merce.hu wrote about the protest, this is what Tessza Udvarhelyi, the activist of A Város Mindenkié (The City is For Everyone) said:

“The guard aggressively attacked us, they turned off the microphone, they pushed us and took away our banner, the guards were shouting, and they distorted the sound so that people cannot hear us.”

The security guard then, because the activists did not go away, called the police who, when they arrived at the location said that: