Peter Magyar Suspected of Theft Could Face Imprisonment

Peter Magyar could face up to two years in prison if convicted. The opposition politician is suspected by the prosecution to have wrenched a phone out of the hands of a man filming him at a nightclub and thrown the device into the Danube.

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Earlier, the Metropol paper pointed to the similarity of Magyar's case to a robbery in 2016, when a 19-year-old man forcibly took the mobile phone of a 14-year-old girl on a bus. The suspect was sentenced to two years in prison in an accelerated procedure. In 2022, a 31-year-old man stole phones on tram 1 and around the tram stops: like Peter Magyar, he took the phones from the hands of the victims and then ran away. The man was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment. These cases are eerily similar to the behavior of the Tisza Party's president, but Magyar would only be suspected of theft by the prosecutor's office, so it is unlikely that he would be handed a prison sentence if the court found him guilty.

Magyra insists on his immunity

The question is, of course, whether the theft case will reach the point where he will have to appear before a Hungarian court, since the president of the Tisza Party stated on Sunday that he has no intention of asking the European Parliament to lift his immunity, even though he previously said he opposite. So it is possible that the politician, who has been implicated in a common criminal offense, will be let go.