“He was running his daughter; the girls made money too. Everyone benefited, right?”
Nagy Feró made this remark at the Peace March about the Szőllő Street case, in which the former director of a Budapest juvenile correctional institute was arrested in May on suspicion of human trafficking and forced labor.
When Telex asked him what he meant by this, he explained that we don’t know whether the girls were forced into prostitution or did it voluntarily.
Several politicians later reacted to his statement. Dobrev Klára said that anyone who speaks about victims this way is not worthy of the Kossuth Prize, nor of being held up as an example to anyone. Lázár János also commented, saying that the government does not revoke Kossuth Prizes. Meanwhile, a municipal councilor in Őrbottyán called for Nagy Feró to be stripped of his honorary citizenship of the town.
At the same time, the government side did not rally behind him either. Vitályos Eszter distanced herself from his remarks. Bayer Zsolt asked Nagy Feró to apologize—as a man should—and then have a drink together. The musician initially told him to go to a warmer climate as well.
Eventually, however, the ice began to break. In a program on HírTV, the musician said that he apologizes to the girls.