Hungary was used as a transit country by terrorists collaborating in the Brussels and Paris attacks, but they never used any city as a logistics base, the head of Parliament’s national security committee said after hearing a report from police leaders.
Terrorism suspects and perpetrators of the actual attacks used the migration wave and human smugglers as a way of getting into Europe and Hungary, Zsolt Molnár told the press after a meeting of the committee. “Terrorists neither carried out recruitment in Hungary, nor did they set up a logistics hub here,” Molnár said.
On the subject of the explosion in central Budapest targeting two police officers last week, the committee found that the most likely motive was to attack the police itself. Molnár said “there is no ideological background of any kind; there is definitely no Islamist basis to the attack.
Bernadett Szél, an LMP delegate of the committee, added that based on details of the investigation, she could confirm that no signs of a jihadist or terrorist connection had emerged in the case.
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