2024-02-09 18:10:34
Par Albert Kornél
Published 16 minutes ago, Updated 1 minute ago
Katalin Novak, President of the Republic, could be forced to resign. ANDREW MEDICHINI/AFP
DECRYPTION – An accomplice of a child molester benefited from a presidential pardon during Pope Francis’ visit to the country last year.
Viktor Orban’s Fidesz is rocked by a scandal the likes of which have not happened to it for years. Among the twenty people pardoned by the President of the Republic, Katalin Novak, on the occasion of Pope Francis’ visit to Hungary last April was the accomplice of a child molester. Endre K., deputy director of a children’s home in Bicske, was sentenced in 2019 to three years and four months in prison for forcing a child to retract his accusations of sexual assault brought against the director of the establishment.
At the latter’s request, he had written a false letter of withdrawal, signed by the victim under the threat of being separated from her cousin who resided in the same orphanage:“He never asked me to take down my pants (…) I made up the fact that he had touched my genitals and that he had already done that to another child (…).”The director was sentenced to eight years in prison for having abused at least ten…
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