Hungarian charged with Nazi-era war crimes dies
Laszlo Csatary AFP FILE PHOTO
BUDAPEST — Laszlo Csatary, a former police officer indicted in June by Hungarian authorities for abusing Jews and contributing to their deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died. He was 98.
His lawyer, Gabor Horvath B., said Csatary died Saturday of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital.
Csatary, who had denied the charges, was sentenced to death in absentia in Czechoslovakia in 1948 for similar war crimes. After the war, he lived for decades in Canada before leaving in 1997 after it was discovered that he had lied about his past to obtain citizenship.
Csatary’s case and his whereabouts were revealed in 2012 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish organization active in hunting down Nazis who have yet to be brought to justice.
