Scandal at Budapest Airport: Ukrainian women assault police

The police have launched an investigation against a Ukrainian national and her daughter who assaulted police officers at Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport, the Central Investigative Prosecutor’s Office told MTI on Thursday.

The suspects had arrived from Egypt, and their drunken, rowdy behaviour caught the police’s attention. When approached, they kicked and hit the officers. The two women have been detained.

A woman, a Ukrainian national, was travelling with her daughter and family members from Egypt to Budapest in the evening hours of 18 August 2023. The police officers on duty at the arrivals side of Terminal 2B of Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport noticed their drunken behaviour, Blikk reports.

The younger woman wanted to complain to the police officers who approached them about the earlier disappearance of her phone. During this, she continuously shouted at the officers and broadcast their actions on a live webcast on her mobile phone. She even provocatively shoved the phone in the face of one of the officers.

The police officers repeatedly asked the woman to stop her actions, but she did not comply and then kicked one of the officers while trying to hit the other officer. The police officers dodged the kicking and punching, but the woman’s mother hit one of the police officers from behind with her palm on the temple.