Hungarian National Guard members hold protest at SE Hungary police station

Around eighty members of the Hungarian National Guard peacefully protested at a police station in Bekescsaba, a town in southeast Hungary, after a Guard event at a nearby farm on Saturday was cancelled after police allegedly found hand grenades there. An MP of the nationalist Jobbik party, Gergo Tamas Samu, told MTI at the demonstration that if the police had indeed found hand grenades then they must have been placed by there by national security officers. Police had informed him that the sports event of the Hungarian National Guard on Saturday had to be called off because "objects appearing to be grenades" were found. He was informed that police had called in explosives experts to inspect the devices. A spokesperson of the Bekes County police headquarters told MTI that they had been alerted by an unknown caller at about 7am that explosives were present at a Bekescsaba farm. Upon arriving at the site, police found that preparations were under way for an event. They told the organisers that the area had to be searched and people were asked to leave. During the search police said that they found devices. Police will announce later on Saturday the nature of the devices found once experts have concluded an examination, the spokesman said.