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The Balassagyarmat District Prosecutor’s Office has charged a 22-year-old man from Nográd County, who rumored that the neighboring settlement is the epicenter of the new coronavirus epidemic, for the crime of threatening a public threat that seriously disrupts public order.
According to the indictment, the young man edited a news agency article on his computer at his residence on March 17, from 6 to 7 pm, using his headline, giving the impression that a chief hospital doctor said the coronavirus was in a neighboring city ”.epicenter“So anyone who can do it should not go to the street. According to the forged article, a seriously infected man came to the hospital from the village, making anyone in his neighborhood more likely to get infected.
The defendant then sent the transcribed article over the phone to an acquaintance in the neighboring village, who sent the news that he believed was real, and the false information spread on the Internet within a few hours.
To avoid the resulting scare and possible panic in the population, the mayor of the settlement had to issue a rebuttal statement about the community or the official side of the settlement.
The defendant knew that the news he had edited and broadcast on the Internet was not true: the hospital he had indicated did not have a physician named as mentioned in his article, and there were no patients with coronavirus disease in Nográd County at the time .
The author threatened to commit a public threat by his act, a threat that, given the new coronavirus pandemic, severely disrupted public order. The Balassagyarmat District Prosecutor’s Office proposed the imposition of a suspended prison sentence on the irresponsible young man. (Fiscal)
