A recent article accused organist Xaver Varnus of abusing underage boys. The musician denies the allegations and stated that the article is full of distortions and false information. The police are currently investigating the case, and several witnesses have already been questioned.
Official Statement
Dóra Dúró, a Member of Parliament from the Mi Hazánk party, publicly defamed me in a Facebook post by calling me a “pedopredator.” I deeply condemn pedophilia, a heinous crime, as every normal person in the world does. In my 60 years, I have never committed any act of pedophilia; I have never been accused of such a crime, nor has any investigation regarding pedophilia been conducted against me, to my knowledge, anywhere in the world.
Dóra Dúró defamed me based on the false article of Mi Hazánk’s propagandist, Angéla Füssy, even though Füssy admitted to Telex after the article was published that she was aware I had committed no crime. Consequently, I have filed a lawsuit today against Dóra Dúró, Angéla Füssy, Andor Bánsági, and anyone else spreading these defamatory claims for malicious defamation that causes significant harm to my reputation in a public forum. I hope Dóra Dúró will not hide behind her parliamentary immunity and continue her defamatory campaign for likes and votes.
This attempt at political character assassination has reached a new level. Individuals posing as journalists are approaching my acquaintances and relatives, offering money in exchange for fabricated stories to tarnish my name. I have irrefutable evidence to refute the blatant lies published by Magyar Jelen in court. I strongly urge all investigators with no grounds for their actions to refrain from harassing my family and friends with questions and unethical offers regarding my private life. My attorney, Dr. András Litresits, is available to provide information upon official inquiries. In the absence of any criminal offense, protecting my private life is my fundamental and legally guaranteed right, stemming from the inherent dignity of every individual. I respectfully ask the press to respect this right.
Finally, due to Angéla Füssy’s baseless and defamatory article, the Jewish Community of Debrecen canceled my November charity concert under pressure from the far-right Mi Hazánk party. The same party’s ideological predecessors once shot Budapest’s Jews into the Danube. It deeply saddens me that three days ago, the far-right’s intimidation led the Music Academy to cancel my sold-out December concerts, causing significant financial and reputational damage to themselves and disappointment to the music-loving public.
It is horrifying that the far-right’s shameless encroachment and psychological terror can evoke memories of the darkest eras in Hungary, even in 2024. What they are doing has nothing to do with child protection. It is merely a tool of power politics, leveraging the hatred of a few tens of thousands of extremists to reach the parliamentary threshold again, plunging Hungary’s LGBTQ and Jewish minorities back into fear. This comes at the cost of conflating homosexuality with pedophilia in a revolting manner, slandering respected individuals with baseless accusations, and tarnishing lifeworks and private lives.
In the 1930s, Thomas Mann’s Achtung, Europa! (“Beware, Europe!”) warned of the dangers of Nazism spreading like a plague. That warning has never been more relevant than in 2024: Hungary, beware!
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