HVIM leader detained for allegedly instigating Beke Istvan to make the explosive device in Târgu Secuiesc

Update: Szőcs Zoltán, leader of the “64 Counties Youth Movement” in Transylvania — HVIM has been taken on remand by organized crime prosecutors on Wednesday morning.

Organized crime prosecutors on Tuesday conducted several searches at the house of Szőcs Zoltán, leader of the “64 Counties Youth Movement” in Transylvania — HVIM. Szőcs is criminally prosecuted after allegedly instigating the organization’s members to make improvised explosive devices, which would be detonated in Târgu Secuiesc, Covasna County on Romania’s National Day.

The Romanian investigators say that on October 10, 2015, during a meeting attended by the members of HVIM local organizations in Romania, Szőcs Zoltán instigated the members of HVIM cell in Târgu Secuiesc to make an improvised explosive device that would be detonated during the manifestations on Romania’s national day celebrated in Târgu Secuiesc. Beke Istvan Attila, HVIM’s member who was actually detained for trying to detonate the device, would have answered: “That’s a deal”.

Szőcs Zoltán would have told his accomplices they have to fire up several devices at the same time so that people should throw themselves down and the parade should be called of.

“Starting December 1, you must set up some 20 devices with chronometer…go figure, just while they are marching…you must do so that several devices should fire up simultaneously… it would be cool to be smoke, it would be a good bomb…I seem to see how they will throw themselves down, like even BBc will broadcast that…everybody would talk about us….to draw attention on the Szekler Land..to see that we up here, we are not afraid….we must do so that we should keep our hands clean that day…you must go somewhere else….it all has to start from the statue(…),” the investigators revealed.

Investigators also say that Szőcs Zoltán was a promoter of the slogan “ Szekler Land is not Romania!”, while asserting that “actions must be taken for that and everything must be physically conquered, as nothing can be done without blood.”

According to the prosecutors, HVIM leader left Romania on October 13 and returned on December 20.

“Previously, the suspect S.Z. made several attempts to get in contact with the members of Beke Istvan’s family and to the other participants at the meeting on October 10 to take a unitary public stance regarding the events preceding the moment of Beke Istvan’s arrest,” Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) says.

Sources from the investigators unveiled that the prosecutors took Szőcs Zoltán from the house of Bretcu commune mayor, as the mayor’s daughter is Szőcs Zoltán’s mistress.

Read more on the case here: http://www.romaniajournal.ro/terror-plot-suspect-in-targu-secuiesc-on-remand-for-30-days-hvim-denies-charges-how-did-beke-istvan-plan-to-detonate-the-explosive-device/