Hungary charge war crimes suspect
Hungarian prosecutors say they have taken into custody and charged with war crimes a man suspected of taking part in the deportation of Jews in 1944.
Laszlo Csatary, whose case was highlighted by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, was taken into custody today, prosecutors said.
They said Csatary was a police officer in the Slovakian city of Kosice – part of Hungary at the time – when Jews were deported to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps, and that he was present when the trains were loaded and sent on their way.
Prosecutors want the 97-year-old held under house arrest, which will also allow authorities to confiscate his passport.
They said that considering Csatary’s age, he is in a good physical and mental state.
