Ten years after a series of murderous attacks on Roma families by extreme right-wingers, an alt-left and a conservative analyst draw opposing conclusions. Both believe, nonetheless, that the plight of the Roma is a central issue in Hungary today.

On Mandiner, Gellért Rajcsányi recalls that ten years ago mutual hatred between Roma and non-Roma reached an unprecedented level as a result of the killing spree and the lynching of a driver who was suspected of knocking over a Roma girl. ‘That was the lowest point’, he writes and describes how Jobbik built its popularity on that hatred at that time. Solving the problems of relations between the Roma and the majority population, Rajcsányi concludes, ‘is the most important issue facing this nation’.