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Hungary charges Laszlo Csatary, over Nazi war crimes | Hungary charges Laszlo Csatary, over Nazi war crimes |
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Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man, Laszlo Csatary, with participation in Nazi war crimes. | |
He is under arrest in Hungary, accused of assisting in the murder of 15,700 Jews during World War II. He denies the allegations. | |
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. |
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. | The indictment accuses Mr Csatary of torturing and murdering Jews - partly as a culprit, partly as an accomplice. |
It says he was the chief of an internment camp for Jews in Kosice, and that he beat them with his bare hands and a dog whip. | |
"With his actions, Laszlo Csatary... deliberately provided help to the unlawful executions and torture committed against Jews deported to concentration camps... from Kosice," the prosecutors' statement said. | |
His trial is expected to start within three months. | His trial is expected to start within three months. |
Most wanted | |
Mr Csatary 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. | 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, for torturing Jews. | |
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. | 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. |
He was in 2012 named by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as its most wanted suspect. | |
He was tracked down in Budapest by reporters from the UK's Sun newspaper in July 2012, with help from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. | |
He was put under house arrest. | |
He has also been charged in Slovakia. |