Hungarian police makes victims perpetrators

Of Hungary police an alleged prevention video let produce about rape - young girls go celebrating into it. The message: They carry the responsibility, if force is done to them.


The three girls want joke have. They laugh, make themselves pretty, dress sexy. They go into a club, drink vodka and beer, dance, become acquainted with boys. Occasionally the face of a verweinten, raped girl appears again and again. In the end the party one of the three girls goes alone home. At the corner a rapist already lies in wait. The last attitude shows the girl after the crime. In addition an inscription is faded in: “You can somewhat for it, you can somewhat against it do.”

The three and a half--minute video with the title “Selfie Klip” was published three days ago by the Hungarian police on its official YouTube channel. It was produced on behalf the police of the southHungarian circle Baranya, the city Pécs uses it in the context of a prevention of violence campaign - there the video is shown among other things at schools. After index.hu, of Hungary released most widely read news portal, under which titles are here “the newest anti-party spots of the police” an critical-ironical article to the video had written, it country-wide medial attention and the protest of numerous woman and civil right organizations.

She means with it above all the Christian-democratic people's party (KDNP), which is attached as splinter party the governing nationalconservative federation of young democrats (Fidesz) of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The KDNP represents a reactionary, fundamentalist Christianity and has responsibility themselves in the Orbán government for an ultraconservative family and educational policy.

In an open letter to the Hungarian police in the meantime several Hungarian woman right organizations in sharp form protest against the video. It exchanges the roles between victims and responsible perpetrator, promotes the contempt and the hate on women, who dress and hold back in certain way, and transports also an injuring message for men, who would be explained as instinct-led potential violent criminals. As Hungarian authorities gave their agreement for the production of such videos, it is called also international human right standards them injured in the protest letter far, to the prevention of violence, which committed itself Hungary to keep.

Instead publish the Hungarian police today on its web page police.hu a call of the police of the West Hungarian circle Vas. Under the heading “women in the shade of the force” it means therein: “The experiences show that the female Metakommunikation comes with prevention a very large role. Often it is the coquetry of young girls, the force to release can.”