Jobbik: Enhanced legal protection for the elderly

Hungarianambiance.com underlined, Jobbik would tighten the Penal Code in order to reduce the number of violent attacks on elderly people.

Jobbik spokesman Ádám Mirkóczki recalled that recently two elderly women were savagely beaten in their own homes. The majority of these brutal attacks committed by gypsy perpetrators said Mirkóczki. One of the victims has survived the brutal attack only because she fainted, so the robbers thought she had died. It is scandalous that police charged the perpetrators with assault rather than attempted murder.

There is no effective crime prevention program in this country therefore, the Criminal Code should be further strengthened. Elderly people over 65 entitled to the same protection as children, because they are as vulnerable as the younger generation. Jobbik demands exemplary punishment for those targeting elderly people; if no one protects the defenseless, they have to be protected by means of the law said the Jobbik politician.

On the weekend Jobbik deputy parliamentary group leader János Volner said, if Jobbik wins the national election the party will start implementing its law enforcement program immediately; it will create a gendarmerie force, self-sustaining correctional institutions, reinstate the death penalty and force violent criminals to pay lifelong compensation to their victims.

Volner reminded journalists of a recent criminal case where a 92 -year-old woman was severely assaulted and robbed — the victim later died of her injuries in hospital.