Three Hungarians sentenced for accosting Jews during WJC Budapest meet

(JTA) – A Hungarian court convicted three young men who accosted Jews in Budapest during the World Jewish Congress general assembly.

In an expedited court procedure on May 9, one of the men was sentenced to three years in jail and the other two were each handed a suspended sentence of two years, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported.

The men, all in their 20s, belonged to a group of about a dozen neo-Nazis who accosted a group of visitors to the World Jewish Congress general assembly on May 3 at the Hungarian capital’s Deak Ferenc square.

The three men followed the visitors from the Dohany Street Synagogue and made Nazi salutes at them and shouted Nazi slogans.

The man who was sent to jail received a tougher sentence because of earlier convictions for violence, a spokesperson for the Budapest prosecutor’s office said according to reports.