Charges dropped against Budapest mayor over 2025 Pride march

Hungarian prosecutors person dropped charges against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony implicit his relation successful organising a Pride march past year.

The lawsuit took spot successful June 2025, contempt warnings of imaginable ineligible repercussions by Hungary's then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose authorities had passed a instrumentality banning nationalist events involving the LGBTQ community.

In a connection issued connected Thursday, Hungarian prosecutors cited a landmark ruling from the EU's apical tribunal arsenic its crushed for dropping the charges.

There was nary contiguous effect from Karacsony.

Budapest's yearly pridefulness march went up past twelvemonth successful spite of the ban, with organisers of the march saying astatine the clip that a grounds 200,000 radical took part.

Speaking astatine the march, Karacsony said: "Neither state nor emotion tin beryllium banned successful Budapest."

Authorities charged him with organising the lawsuit successful January.

But successful April, the European Court of Justice ruled that Hungary's anti-LGBTQ laws interruption EU rules and infringe its values of equality and number rights.

The laws banned alleged promotion of homosexuality oregon sex alteration to under-18s, arguing it violated kid extortion laws.

Citing that ruling connected Thursday, Hungarian prosecutors announced that the charges had been dropped.

"Considering the ruling by the European Court... the prosecutors dropped charges against the Budapest politician for violating the instrumentality connected state of assembly," they said successful a statement.