Fear and trembling in Szátok

Szátok is a small village in Nógrád county with 564 residents. It is located in a picturesque environment, surrounded by gentle hills, on the one side and fertile farmlands on the other. But this idyll appears only from a distance; at a close sight, Szátok is a destitute place griped by fear and terror.

About sixty percent of the population are gypsies. They make a living out of child support payments and social assistance; they produce so many children that the population of the village has grown from 480 to 564 souls within eight years. But most children come into this world with mental defects, due to inbreeding and the extremely unhealthy lifestyle of the parents. The gypsies of Szátok are either alcoholic or sniffing paint thinner.

Once the village was a lively agricultural center but today, no one cultivates the land that according to locals, one of the most fertile in the country. Most residents want to leave the village. The young people have already left; only the older and those who nowhere to go are still remaining.

The pub of the village closed down years ago and recently, the grocery store has followed the same path. Today, a small enterprise runs the grocery store out of a van.

The pub closed down because drunk gypsies insulted the customers on a regular basis and people stopped going to the pub. Also, the owner of the pub couldn't find employees to work in the business.

The none-gypsy residents of the village are living in constant fear and terror. Gypsy gangs are roaming the streets of the village with plastic bags on their heads sniffing paint thinner. Under the influence of the solvent, they are attacking whoever they come across with. The police can do nothing because sniffing paint thinner is not against the law.

Other gypsies are sitting on the streets drunk and giddy from the substance. According to gypsy residents, they are satisfied with their lifestyle.

Considering the disposition of the location, gypsies could do so much to improve their lives. Farming could provide a good living for the entire village but the mayor is not able to get gypsies working.

Since the pub closed down, gypsies have been going to the nearby villages and towns to get their daily alcohol intake. Pub and restaurant owners of the villages of Romhány and Szécsény are complaining about the gypsy invasion; they consume but don't pay their bills.

In the last, year gypsies almost lynched a police officer that had to use his gun to escape from the attack of the gypsy mob. The officer stopped a car whose driver was drunk. The driver then called his relatives that attacked the officer.

Lynching is not an uncommon form of murder among gypsies. Two years ago, a professor, Lajos Szögi was lynched by a gang of gypsies in front of his teenage daughters.

Gypsy crime is a covert project, run by the regime and the puppet masters behind the scene, in order to keep a permanent tension among the people, which is part of the strategy of divide and conquer. Actually, the real problem is not the gypsies, just like in prostitution, the real problem is not the hookers but the pimps running the show in the background.

(Based on “Szátok retteg a cigányoktól” - mno.hu)