MEP convicted of revenge porn condemns Hungarian pedophile law

Cyrus Engerer was found guilty in 2014 for the premeditated act of circulating pornographic recordings of his former romantic partner in order to humiliate him.

Cyrus Engerer Maltese politician and Randolph De Battista Forrás: Facebook

While the state of the Hungarian, Polish, or Slovenian press is constantly on the agenda in the EU institutions ( all three countries have conservative parties at the helm), criticisms of Malta and Slovakia have not yet been perpetuated over the assassination of the aforementioned journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the Slovak Ján Kuciak.

“If there is an infringement procedure against Hungary, we should initiate the same against Malta. If there is no procedure against Malta, there should not be one against Hungary either”

– Antonio Tajani the former President of the EP told Magyar Nemzet last year.

The Maltese investigative journalist reporting on corruption cases was murdered in October 2017 with a hidden car bomb. Caruana Galizia had uncovered a number of cases related to organized crime such as corruption and money laundering, which have put several high-ranking Maltese politicians and government officials in uncomfortable situations. During the investigation into the murder, a number of key politicians in Malta’s left-wing government, including the then Prime Minister Joseph Muscat himself, came to the attention of the authorities. The scandal led to the resignation of the government last January. (We wrote about this case earlier here).

Hypocritical critics

As we recently reported, another protagonist in the rule of law procedures against Hungary and Poland, the Belgian Didier Reynders, the current European Commissioner for Law Enforcement, has had some suspicious affairs in the past. “With his past, he should not be able to serve as Justice Commissioner, he should not lecture other countries, and I don’t think he should represent Belgium in the European Commission,” Philippe Engels, investigative journalist, told Magyar Nemzet regarding Didier Reynders. Engels is the author of The Reynders Clan, a work revealing corruption cases which was nominated as the year’s best political book in Belgium.