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Video! – Police Shoots and Chases Fugitive on the Streets of Budapest
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At noon 15th February in Budapest Regional Court a prisoner escaped and got himself into a car chase on the streets of Budapest. The fugitive was being chased from Budapest city centre all the way to outer districts, 10 kilometres away from the court.
A guilty man at the court had just received his 13-month penalty at the Budapest Regional Court for truculence and vandalism when he managed to get out of the court building. After receiving the sentence, he did not let himself wearing the handcuffs and grabbed a guard’s gun out of his hands. He then ran outside to force a car’s 63-year-old driver to stop and drive for him, while pointing the gun against his head. Nobody was injured at the Regional Court at the time, index.hu reported.
The fugitive was already sentenced before, he had received a 9-year-sentence before in 2017, too.
The city was full of the cars of the Hungarian police. Some say it was about 50 police cars chasing the grey Nissan with the fugitive. The whole Árpád bridge was under police control. A policeman shot at the car at some point, when the car was going past the police cars, driving on the grass.
