The Death of Tibor Bukszár — the Last Policeman Killed During the Socialist Period

Abstract

On 4th November 1988 Tibor Bukszár, Hungarian policeman was killed at night on Tram number 47, Budapest. A group of young men did karate on the tram and they were very noisy. The policeman told them to stop this behaviour but they continued. The policeman was off duty going home. He had his gun on him and fired a warning shot towards the ceiling. After that one of the young men took hold of his gun. The policeman wanted to escape, but he could not and a young man, Attila Solymosi killed him at a tram stop. The judicial procedure was long: it finished in 1992. My paper sets out to describe what happened based on archive research and contemporary newspaper articles.