Magyar was in attendance on the Ötkert nightclub in downtown Budapest within the early hours of June 21 when he received right into a heated argument with one other visitor.
In accordance with a police report obtained by Hungarian information portal Telex, a visitor on the membership was filming Magyar dancing with ladies. Magyar objected, and an argument ensued throughout which Magyar grabbed the person’s telephone from his hand.
Magyar was later filmed being led out of the membership by safety guards, after which strolling to the financial institution of the close by Danube River the place, in keeping with the police report and prosecutors, he threw a “black-colored object” into the water. Magyar has admitted to taking the person’s cellphone however hasn’t admitted to throwing it within the river.
“This habits might represent the crime of theft. The telephone, value greater than 100,000 forints (€250), was returned to the sufferer in working situation after the police intervened,” the Workplace of the Prosecutor Normal wrote in an announcement.
Polt has requested European Parliament President Roberta Metsola to waive Magyar’s MEP immunity to permit him to be prosecuted.
Magyar posted a sardonic response on Fb. “How briskly and ‘environment friendly’ Fidesz founder Péter Polt will be,” he wrote. “What’s the state of affairs with Tóni, Comrade Prosecutor Normal?”
The “Tóni” referred to a pending case involving Orbán’s highly effective cupboard chief Antal Rogán, whom Magyar accuses of high-level corruption.