The New Hungarian Guard and the For a Better Future Hungarian Self-Defense carried out regular propaganda activity throughout Hungary in the years 2009–2014, though primarily in rural areas with large Gypsy populations.

The New Hungarian Guard and the largely overlapping For a Better Future Hungarian Self-Defense have estimated total membership of under a thousand ( source in English), though the New Hungarian Guard launched a new recruitment campaign to mark the sixth anniversary of the foundation of the original Hungarian Guard in the summer of 2013, initiating about 130 new members at ceremonies in the village of Akasztó and Budapest in August of that year ( source in English and source in Hungarian). The For a Better Future Civil Guard changed its name in January 2013 to For a Better Future Hungarian Self-Defense ( source in Hungarian).Īugust 2013 New Hungarian Guard initiation ceremony in Akasztó (source: ultrasliberi.hu) The New Hungarian Guard is a precise reincarnation of the original Hungarian Guard in both its black and white uniform and its radical-nationalist ideology. The leader of the New Hungarian Guard is Captain István Mészárosīékés County New Hungarian Guard Captain Attila Tibor László founded the organization’s security-patrol unit, the For a Better Future Civil Guard ( Szebb Jövőért Polgárőr Egyesület), as a separate legal entity in the town of Békéscsaba (southeastern Hungary) in the spring of 2010. However, some of those who attended the first meeting of the László Toroczkai–led Jobbik splinter party Our Homeland ( Mi Hazánk) in June 2018 appeared in New Hungarian Guard uniforms ( source in Hungarian).įormer Hungarian Guard ( Magyar Gárda) Captain Róbert Kiss and a group of 100 followers established the New Hungarian Guard paramilitary organization in the town of Dabas, about 10 kilometers south of Budapest, on July 25, 2009, three weeks after the legal dissolution and banning of the Hungarian Guard ( source in Hungarian). These organizations have become largely inactive since the deradicalization of the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik) party in 2014. The New Hungarian Guard and the For a Better Future Hungarian Self-Defense espouse an overtly anti-Semitic, anti-capitalist, anti-liberal, anti–European Union and anti-West political agenda.

The New Hungarian Guard ( Új Magyar Gárda) and the For a Better Future Hungarian Self-Defense ( Szebb Jövőért Magyar Önvédelem) are closely related radical-nationalist paramilitary organizations that operate primarily in rural Hungary with the explicit objective of combating “Gypsy crime.” The old Hungarian Guard ( Orange Files photo)

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