{{Four Hungarian men have been sentenced to jail after they were found guilty of killing six Roma, including a five-year-old child, in a wave of racially-motivated attacks between 2008 and 2009.}}<\/p>\n
A Budapest court on Tuesday handed down life sentences to Arpad Kiss, Istvan Kiss and Zsolt Peto. Fourth defendant, Istvan Csontos, who served as a driver to his accomplices, was sentenced to 13-year prison.<\/p>\n
The four convicted men, aged between 28 and 42 at the time of the crimes, are expected to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n
During a year-long spree of violence, six people were killed and five seriously injured, all of them ethnic Roma, a community that makes up between five to eight percent of Hungary’s 10 million population.<\/p>\n
In one of the most gruesome attacks, a Roma father and his five-year-old son were gunned down as they tried to flee their house, which the gang had set on fire.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the four defendants, all hard-core fans of the Debrecen football club in northeastern Hungary with neo-Nazi links, had had run-ins with Roma in the past.<\/p>\n
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