The Hungarian Prosecutor General's Office demands that Prime Minister Peter Magyar's immunity be revoked due to the theft of a phone in 2024

The Hungarian Prosecutor General's Office has filed a petition to suspend the immunity of the country's Prime Minister Peter Magyar due to suspicion of committing theft.

It is noted that in June 2024, in one of the clubs in Budapest, Magyar got into an altercation and took the phone from another visitor, who filmed his actions on video. The politician put the phone in his pocket and later threw it into the Danube River.

At the time of the conflict, the politician was a member of the European Parliament. Then parliament refused to deprive him of his immunity at the request of Hungarian law enforcement agencies. In the spring of 2026, Magyar took office as a member of the Hungarian Parliament. In this regard, the prosecutor's office decided to deprive the Prime Minister of immunity already in Hungary in order to resume the investigation of the 2024 case.

Magyar reaction

The Hungarian Prime Minister said that he would not object if the country's parliament deprived him of parliamentary immunity.

Magyar called the case against him fabricated. The politician also announced his intention to file a complaint against the police for sending a team of divers to look for a sunken phone in the Danube, “risking their lives.”

Magyar had wine thrown in his face

Magyar said earlier in September that an unknown man poured wine on him as a sign of disagreement with his policies. The incident occurred after the politician's trip to Pécs and a stop in Szekszárd for the grape harvest festival. During a conversation with the restaurant owners, an elderly man threw white wine towards the prime minister.

The man was later taken away by a security guard. Magyar called the attacker a “defeated warrior of Orbán,” hinting at his affiliation with supporters of the former Hungarian prime minister and the opposition party Fidesz.

In July, a passerby spat at the prime minister in Budapest. The incident occurred at the Western Station, when the politician was walking along the platform with Transport Minister David Vitesi. An unknown person walked behind them and spat at the politician. Security immediately took the man away.

According to Magyar, people are not to blame for the hatred that lives in their hearts. He blamed this on Orbán's propaganda and said Hungary was moving towards becoming a humane country.