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| Hungary charges Laszlo Csatary, over Nazi war crimes | |
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| Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect, Laszlo Csatary. | Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect, Laszlo Csatary. |
| He is under arrest in Hungary, accused of assisting in the murder of 15,700 Jews during World War II. | |
| In 1944 he was serving in the Nazi police in Kosice, now in Slovakia. | In 1944 he was serving in the Nazi police in Kosice, now in Slovakia. |
| Last August he was also charged in Slovakia. The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center says Mr Csatary oversaw deportations of Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. | Last August he was also charged in Slovakia. The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center says Mr Csatary oversaw deportations of Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. |
| The indictment accuses Mr Csatary of torturing and murdering Jews - partly as a culprit, partly as an accomplice. | |
| His trial is expected to start within three months. | |
| He has denied the accusations. He insists that he was merely an intermediary between Hungarian and German officials in Kosice and that he was not involved in war crimes. | |
| Kosice - called Kassa at the time - was the site of the first Jewish ghetto established on Hungarian territory, following the German occupation of the country in 1944. | |
| In 1948, a Czechoslovakian court condemned Mr Csatary to death in absentia. | |
| He had been tracked down by reporters from the UK's Sun newspaper in July 2012, with help from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. | He had been tracked down by reporters from the UK's Sun newspaper in July 2012, with help from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. |
| Mr Csatary fled to Canada after the war, where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal and Toronto. He disappeared in 1997 after being stripped of his Canadian citizenship. |