The breath of freedom for 3 days in Budapest

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Budapest 2006 September

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 After 3 days of revolutionary swing, the protests seem to calm down by the end of the week. It is due to several facts:

1. 
   The police behaved in an extremely brutal way with everybody who crossed their way on the streets during the last 2 nights (Wednesday, Thursday). They have beaten innocent bystanders and journalists as well. They brutality was put on the web (e.g. on one of the main portals, see: http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/) so that to convince people not to go on the streets.


2. 
   Couple of hundred of people were arrested in order to crash the hardcore protesters, among them many football hooligans and ultras of the 2 biggest football clubs of Budapest, but also 3 punks behaving loud on a bus and inhabitants of the surrounding houses where the protests took place.


3. 
   Police forces came to the capital in an enormous number, from several cities all around the country. After seeing CS gas was not effective enough, the police began to use a new, much stronger gas - it is produced by NIKE Fiocchi (http://www.nike-fiocchi.hu/), a former military supplier, the ingredients of the gas are not known by the public.

Owner of the most viewed Hungarian blog (http://blog.tomcatpolo.hu/), Tamás Polgár (aka Tomcat) was arrested because he was present at the siege of MTV and took part in the demolition of the IIWW soviet monument on Szabadság (="freedom") Square, just opposite to the state television's headquarter. Hungary celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1956 anti-soviet revolution on the 23rd October.

Acording to the meteorologists, nice weather is expected for the weekend, hopefully with less violence and more peaceful political activity.