Outrage in Romania: politician said he would hang this Hungarian journalist

Hungarian journalist Boróka Parászka
Boróka Parászka, the victim of the verbal attack. Photo: facebook.com/paraszka

Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, other politicians and Romanian media outlets have protested against remarks of a Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) politician targeting an ethnic Hungarian journalist living and working in Romania.

Last week, at an event in Sfantu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy), Barna Bartha said of Boróka Parászka, a journalist of public broadcaster Targu Mures Radio: “If Hungarians can’t hang these people, if they can’t eliminate them, then it’s no wonder we are where we are.” He went on to make anti-Semitic and anti-Roma remarks.

Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca and Deputy Prime Minister Hunor Kelemen, head of the ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party, condemned the statement on Facebook. “Freedom of opinion for journalists is a basic requirement of the rule of law, and a fundamental value in any democracy. I call on the relevant institutions of the state to … protect journalists and hold those inciting to hatred and discrimination accountable,” Ciuca said.

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Source: MTI

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