The police thoroughly investigated the case, but found no evidence that a Fidesz activist was shot at during the election campaign in Szentendre, it was revealed at the meeting of the city representative body, where the head of the local police department gave a report.
As we wrote, In March, Eszter Vitályos, the local Fidesz parliamentary representative and candidate, reported on Facebook that one of the Fidesz signature collectors was shot with a gas gun in Szentendré. The former government spokesman commented on all of this by saying that “this is the result of Tisza’s incitement of hatred”, “this is where Péter Magyar, the Tisza Party and their local candidates’ continuous harassment and hate campaign lead”.
Vitályos also published a video of the person telling him this on the phone. According to the man, he went to a multi-apartment house to knock. After ringing the doorbell at one of the apartments and saying who he was collecting signatures for, the resident asked for patience. Not long after, he leaned out of the window and, according to him, shot him with a gas pistol. The activist then ran away, according to his statement, he was not hurt.
At the meeting of the Szentendre representative body on June 24, in response to a question from mayor Zsolt Fülöp, Szentendre police captain Pál Szelei gave a detailed account of the incident. It was revealed that the police conducted a very thorough investigation into the matter after the activist filed a complaint.
The Szentendre police interviewed the informant, who already said during his interrogation as a witness: he did not see the man threatening him, nor the object believed to be a weapon, he only heard a bang-like sound. The police also searched two apartments in the apartment building, but did not find a weapon or anything that looked like one. But even then they didn’t give up. They also looked for traces that could indicate the use of a pyrotechnic device, but none were found.
Samples were also taken from the hand of the resident of the apartment in question, and an expert was appointed to clarify whether he could have fired the shot. At this point, the Pest County Police Headquarters took over the investigation, and the proceedings continued there. The Szentendre captain said at the board meeting: he received the information from the county police station that the investigation was closed and terminated by the criminal directorate of the Pest County Police Headquarters, because it could not be established that a crime had occurred at the given time and place based on the available data and evidence.
The captain’s answer is a on a video recording of a board broadcast can also be seen from the 35th minute.
