Laszlo
Csatary was the most wanted Nazi war crimal in the world. He was
arrested by the Hungarian authorities on Wednesday 18th July 2012 in
Budapest, 68 years after the end of the war...
In
1944, Mr. Csatary served as a senior Hungarian police officer in the
eastern Slovak city of Kosice and is accused of the deportation of
15,700 Jews from Kosice to the Auschwitz death camp. He was condemned
to death in absentia on June the 8th 1948.
On
January the 19th 1945, he escaped to Canada where he worked as an art
dealer in Montreal and Toronto under a false identity. In 1995, the
Canadian authorities discovered his real identity and he then escaped
back to Hungary. He lived there under his real identity for 17 years
before being finally arrested...
Why did Hungary, a member State of the European Union, wait so long to arrest this Nazi? Perhaps it is because he is old. But, surely, once a Nazi, always a Nazi? I think he should have been punished for the crimes he committed, especially as he has not apparently shown any remorse...
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