Budapest’s Lurdy shopping mall was the scene of an unusual event — at least for Hungary — when over a dozen Syrians and Jordanians became involved in a mass brawl.
Friday’s fight at Lurdy House pitted members of a Syrian and a Jordanian family against each other reportedly over a long-standing feud. After the altercation, three people were questioned by police and one was detained. The latter was already on probation for violence.
Prior to the fight, the Cultural Association of Egyptians in Hungary had held an event, which was peaceful. The president of the association said that the two families involved have been angry at each other for years. Some people hit others with chairs. One man was hit on the head so hard that he was taken to the hospital with a life-threatening skull injury.