Caught on Video: Hard-Right Hungarian Pol's Arrest at Belgian Sex Party

The arrest of hard-right Hungarian politician József Szájer as he attempted to flee a Belgian sex party last December was caught on video thanks to a film crew that happened to be on site, UK newspaper Independent reports.

The film crew was riding with police when reports of a COVID restriction-breaking party came in, The Independent said. "When they arrived, police were arresting Mr. Szájer, who had been seen climbing out of the window and down a drainpipe in an attempt to escape," according to Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.

"The video shows 59-year-old Mr. Szájer surrounded by police officers with his hands against a wall," the article continues. The anti-gay pol was one of 25 attendees at the orgy, reports said.

Szájer had been a longtime politician and member of the conservative Fidesz party. Reports said that police found him to be in possession of ecstasy, though Szájer insisted he had taken no drugs that evening.

Szájer resigned his position as Hungary's representative as a Member of the European Parliament, and Hungary's strongman Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, promptly denounced him.

Szájer had supported the Hungarian government's anti-LGTBQ agenda, including a rewrite of the country's constitution that specifically bars marriage for same-sex couples.

The Hungarian government has attacked the press, requiring a disclaimer on the covers of books with gay themes or content, and, as NBC News noted, "banned recognizing transgender identities in official documents, and amended the constitution to declare that in a family 'the father is a man and the mother is a woman,' " a move that effectively put an end to adoptions by same-sex couples in the country.

The sex party's organizer, 29-year-old David Manzheley, told the press that "compulsory group sex and no condoms were the only rules," according to UK newspaper The Times (story is behind a paywall).