On September 3, the Hungarian police made a significant arrest at Budapest's airport, apprehending a 32-year-old man with a complex background—Algerian-Canadian-Hungarian—who had previously committed murder in Hungary. This individual, who had fled to Canada after the 2011 stabbing of a Hungarian man, had been serving a life sentence for manslaughter and was on the run after escaping from a Canadian prison. His arrest marks a pivotal moment in international law enforcement cooperation, highlighting the challenges of tracking down dangerous criminals across borders.
Magyar Nemzet: On Sept. 3, a 32-year-old Algerian-Canadian-Hungarian man, with citizenship in all three countries, who had murdered a Hungarian man by stabbing him in the back with a sword in 2011, was arrested in Budapest, Hungarian police said in a statement.
The perpetrator fled the scene after the murder back in Canada but later voluntarily surrendered. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for manslaughter.
While in prison, however, he committed another crime causing serious personal injury. The Canadian authorities refused to grant him parole after 12 years.
After a hearing on the matter, he decided to escape this past spring from Laval, a Federal Training Center under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Correctional Service in the province of Quebec. He was wanted internationally and listed on Quebec’s most dangerous criminals website.
Information was received by the National Investigation Bureau of the Standby Police (PNI) as a result of international criminal cooperation that the man would be arriving in Hungary by plane. Bounty hunters from Hungary’s Emergency Police National Investigation Office (KR NNI), in cooperation with the Airport Police Directorate and the KR intervention units, apprehended the man just as he was disembarking from the plane from Amsterdam on the morning of Sept. 3.
He entered the country by using his brother’s document as proof of identity. Police in the terminal arrested him and transported him to the airport police station. He was prosecuted for forgery of public documents due to using an identity card in another person’s name.
A decision on his extradition back to Canada will be made at a later date.
