Hungarian Politician Resigns After Brussels Party Raided by Police

A SENIOR conservative Hungarian politician abruptly announced his resignation from the European Parliament after the police broke up a party he attended in Brussels because it violated coronavirus restrictions.

Jozsef Szajer, a well-known figure in the right-wing Fidesz party led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, confirmed on Tuesday that he had been at the party last week. He did not comment on Belgian media descriptions of it as an all-male orgy in the heart of the city’s gay-bar district.

The office of the Brussels public prosecutor said in a statement that the police had intervened Friday after neighbors complained about noise and found 20 people in an apartment. Two of them invoked diplomatic immunity, it said.

“A passer-by reported to the police that he had seen a man fleeing” the scene, the prosecutor’s statement said. It said: “The man’s hands were bloody. It is possible that he may have been