First attempt to deconstruct a heinous crime [UPDATED]

Seven months ago, in the town of Kiskunlacháza, Nóri Horák, a fourteen year old student (picture) was brutally murdered in a winter night, as she was walking home from a party. Her naked body was found, just a stone throw from her home, by her father. Then, police were confident of finding the perpetrator, as they had a hot lead in the case. They were so confident that didn't even offer reword for murder tips. But soon, investigators became "uncertain" about the lead saying that in fact, they had no lead at all in solving the murder.

Kiskunlacháza is a small town with nine thousand residents. Most of the town people know each other and it is not at all surprising that locals had ideas about the identity of the criminals. The ideas all pointed to gypsy criminals that make the life of the small town difficult, irrespective of this unspeakable act of violence.

Gypsy crime has its cultural characteristics that most Hungarians can easily identify. These are, among others, brutality and gang related execution of violent acts.

Today, police surprised everyone by announcing the arrest of a lone suspect, József P. that has been charged with the murder of Nóri Horák. According to scattered reports, the man admitted the crime. According to police, József P. is the only suspect charged with the crime.

The suspect lived just a few blocs from the victim's home. He is 25 years of age and lived alone. He worked part time, as a plumber helper. His parents were alcoholics and died several years ago. He stutters but otherwise doesn't seem to suffer any mental dysfunction. Though, his home is a messy and the rooms stinks.

Police found “evidence” regarding the crime. Officers “found” Nóri's bag and several of her jewelries in the dust bag of a vacuum cleaner. His DNA also matched with the one police recovered from the crime scene.

Police have investigated the case for 7 months and Jozsef P. came into the picture, as one officers spotted his red hair. Police recovered red hair samples from the crime scene and ever since they have been looking for a suspect with red hair. Strangely enough, police officers needed 7 months to find the only person in town with red hair.

As the story unfolding in the reports, it's getting freakier by every piece of emerging detail. This is especially true for the postmodern motive of the crime, as it was introduced by police. In the fateful night, József P. decided he would rape the first person he meets on his way home. Just like that; like those disinterested characters, in Peter Greenaway's movies.

According to rumors (Where these rumors are coming from?), József P. met Nóri Horák, knocked her unconscious, grabbed her lifeless body, took her in his house, then raped and killed her. He killed Nóri for fearing that her scream might alert neighbors. Before sunrise, with the help of his girlfriend and another friend, he took the body to the place where she was found by her father. Is this narrative believable to you?

The story has a definite Hollywood plot structure evolving around a lone killer that always fascinated moviegoers.

Now, let's put the story into context and take a look at the backdrop, against which it might make some sense.

Hungary is governed by a regime pursuing a socio-economic agenda more pernicious than anything, we have seen in recent history. During its eight years in power, this regime single-handedly deindustrialized the country by taxing small businesses out of existence, in the mean time subsidizing global corporations to the point of giving them gifts. This policy has turned the Hungarian people into slave laborers, in their own land working for wages so low not even enough to reproduce basic needs necessary to maintain life. Moreover, in order to stop people from revolting, the regime unleashed gypsy crime on the entire population. In the mean time, under the guise of political correctness, the media relentlessly assaulting people with the “fiction of gypsy crime” so helping the sinister project of enslaving the population. If you repeat the magic words enough times, people might eventually believe it .


The police chief is talking about... Notice the expression on their faces.


Police chief and his boss Tibor Draskovics responsible for police and law enforcement. Their facial expressions say it all.

The regime knows that its time is up. The population is waking up that was evident during the EP election. The regime is panicking and what we are witnessing is their last ditch effort to save themselves disappearing from political life and an attempt to escape the approaching day of reckoning.

The message is: there is no gypsy crime. The murderer is a Hungarian and gypsy crime is a fiction.

The story has a Hollywood style narrative alien from the Hungarian storytelling tradition (the lone murderer is an American cultural icon).

The lone murderer, in general, is a freak. Police like freaks; they fascinate people and the story can be easily manipulated.

The subtext of the story tells us that we are all individuals living in our own bubbles, utterly unknowable to each other; society is a mirage and human bond is a fiction.

The ink hardly dried on the perpetrator's arrest warrant when Orbán Kolompár, the prized gypsy chief, a repeat offender, called upon the Mayor of Kiskunlacháza to apologize to the gypsies for suggesting that the murderers of Nóri Horák might have been gypsies.

Something tells me this was only the first installment of a series that will continue soon; stay tuned.

[UPDATE]

Police video about the house search.

Watch the film noir about the search of the suspect's house (and try not to laugh). One is not suppose to laugh while watching this genre. Though, I have to admit, I cracked up laughing several times while watching it.

It took seven months for police, to track down Jozsef P., despite the fact that he lived in the close vicinity of the victim; but only a few minutes to find the evidence hidden in a vacuum cleaner. A flashlight was enough for police to find the stolen items taken from the victim. Bravo. These are the kinds of videos that make police credible.

Notice the effort by which the cameraman recording every details of the mise-en-scène, the broken door, the dirty floor, the messy rooms end so on, to heighten the excitement; only the music is missing, otherwise, all the magic signs that suppose to hypnotize the target audience are there.

My question is simple, why was this “meta” evidence (I mean the film noir) necessary when the accused has already admitted the crime? You do the guessing.