Hungarian researcher threatened to kill Ukrainian diplomat

A Hungarian man, who threatened to kill a Ukrainian diplomat was sentenced to one-year imprisonment, the attorney general told MTI on Tuesday.

According to Gábor Medveczky’s statement, the Central Prosecutor’s Office indicted a middle-aged man, working in the field of humanities research in February 2021.

The man threatened to kill the first-class secretary and diplomat of Ukraine who served in Hungary twice.

Index writes that the indicted man was asked by the Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest to give a lecture on the 100^th anniversary of the founding of Ukrainian diplomacy.

The lecturer had submitted the draft of his presentation to the Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest before the event, but according to Gábor Medveczky’s statement, the embassy told the man that due to his subject choice, the lecture would be postponed and held at a later date as part of a linguistic conference.

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The news portal wrote that the indicted man, displeased with the decision of the Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest, wrote two e-mails five days apart, in Ukrainian, addressed to the embassy in which he threatened the first-class secretary and diplomat of Ukraine that he would kill him.