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Romanian Placed In Preventive Arrest In Hungary Under Charges Of Terrorism

One Romanian citizen from Romanian village Sambrias, Maramures county, Szasz Endre Istvan, was placed under preventive arrest for 30 days in Hungary, under charges of terrorism.
Romanian Placed In Preventive Arrest In Hungary Under Charges Of Terrorism
20 mai 2009, 21:02, English

According to the Romanian attaché to the Ministry of Interior in Bucharest, Ioan Bente, the Romanian was arrested on May 15 in Hungary, under charges of terrorism. He was wanted by the police under suspicion that he held suspect materials.

"He wasn’t suspected for lone. Some one month ago, the Hungarian police unfolded some raids following several attacks (…) There was an investigations, there was a circle of suspects and the trail led to the home of Szasz Endre Istvan, where authorities found various materials. He wasn’t arrested then. Police arrested him Friday (May 15), while he was in a house in Budapest. The second day, police and the prosecutor presented the case before the court with a proposition for 29-day preventive arrest. The judge allowed the request, thus he is now under preventive arrest for 30 days," Bente explained.

Alin Serbanescu, spokesperson for the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told MEDIAFAX that the ministry has unfolded procedures for the identification of the citizen through the Romanian Embassy to Budapest, but Romanian authorities cannot intervene because the suspect has not issued a consular assistance request.