Előd Novák, Member of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairman of the Hungarian far-right party Mi Hazánk Mozgalom (Our Homeland Movement), has announced in a video posted on his social media that he is filing a police report against BAC Consulting Ltd for aiding and abetting a terrorist act.
As we also reported, on 17 September hundreds of pagers exploded in the hands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, killing 12 and injuring over 2,000 more, according to the reporting by Reuters. The following day, a series of incidents of walkie-talkies exploding killed 20 more people.
Hezbollah blamed the Israeli government for the attack, however, Israeli officials have not officially taken credit for it. MP Novák, adopting Hezbollah talking points, accuses Israel of having committed ‘an act of mass terrorism’ that was ‘obviously conducted by [Israeli intelligence agency] Mossad’.
MP Novák shot his video announcement at the registered address of BAC Consulting Ltd, where he himself noted that no manufacturing facilities appear to exist.
‘We currently do not know where the manufacturing takes place,’ he said, ‘which is why I am filing the police report, so that hopefully the police, through searches conducted soon, can try to investigate how such an incredible situation could have occured.’
However, as it was later revealed by the Hungarian government, the company in question has no manufacturing facilities at all in Hungary, and the pagers have never been located in Hungary either, let alone manufactured in the country. This, by the way, falls completely in line with what the name of the company suggests, as it has the word ‘consulting’ in it, not ‘manufacturing’…
MP Novák jumped to conclusions based on nothing but media reports when he decided to file the report. The speculation that the exploding pagers may have been made in Hungary came from the Taiwanese company Gold Appollo whose branding was displayed on the pagers, which may have been a simple PR move to misdirect unwanted media attention. Furthermore, there is absolutely no evidence that the explosives were planted during the manufacturing process. It is entirely possible that they have been placed in the pagers during transportation, unbeknownst to the manufacturer. What further complicates the issue is that the walkie-talkies that exploded the following day had the branding of a different company, Icom based in Osaka, Japan.
‘MP Novák adopted the language of far-left activists, and referred to the Hamas–Israeli war as “a genocide in Gaza”’
What is even more troubling is that MP Novák adopted the language of far-left activists, and referred to the Hamas–Israeli war as ‘a genocide in Gaza’ in his video announcement of the police report. He also criticized the Hungarian government for being the only Member State in the EU to stand up for Israel, vetoing the sanctioning of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip.
Filing police reports in cases with no additional information or involvement in the case has become quite a gimmick among the opposition parties in Hungary. Péter Magyar of the TISZA party has routinely engaged in that; while Klára Dobrev of the Democratic Coalition (DK) has tried one ham-fisted attempt against President Tamás Sulyok of Hungary for an alleged case from decades ago. Evidently, these reports achieve nothing but waste the time of law enforcement personnel. However, they reveal the true nature of those who file them, which voters no doubt notice.
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