Pressure on Hungary to prosecute Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary

While in the town, known as Kassa in Hungarian and Kaschau in German, he was
renowned for his brutality, beating women with a whip he carried on his belt
and forcing them to dig holes with their bare hands.

During the war, he organised deportations of thousands of Jews to death camps
in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe and is accused of complicity in the killing
of at least 16,000 people.

Csatary has officially been under investigation by the Hungarian authorities
since 11 September 2011 and is locally reported as having been under police
surveillance since April.

Sources told The Daily Telegraph that the investigation is taking a long time
because the crimes “took place 68 years ago in an area that now falls
under the jurisdiction of another country”.

But Nazi hunters have expressed frustration at delays.

“This man is healthy and he drives his own car,” said Efraim Zuroff,
director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem.

“Nothing has happened and I am very frustrated. At Csatary’s age health
can deteriorate from one day to another. We must act quickly. The passage of
time does not diminish his guilt and old age should not provide protection
for the perpetrators of the Holocaust.”

Jewish students protested last night on “Gyori ut”, the smart
Budapest street where Csatary lives, demanding his immediate arrest.

“We are proud to do our part in bringing the world’s attention to this
evil man and his horrific crimes,” said Andi Gergely, the president of
the European Union of Jewish Students.

A Hungarian spokesman yesterday said: “The government has always
supported the exhaustive exploration of past crimes and the prosecution of
perpetrators.”

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