NAZI HUNTING SUSPENDED

The Israeli Simon Wiesenthal Centre appoints a new coordinator to continue Nazi hunting in Hungary as Iván Beer referring to legal obstacles suspended his activities.

Iván Beer is also afraid of being ’persecuted’ by legal tricks. Yesterday Ephraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli Wiesenthal Centre said they would appoint another coordinator to go on with the Last Chance Operation in Hungary within weeks. He said people who were afraid of this operation did everything possible, including dirty tricks, to halt the action. Both him and Mr Beer criticized Attila Péterfalvi, ombudsman for the protection of personality rights who had said it was illegal to transfer data of Hungarian citizens to foreign countries.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó