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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 27 February 2019

Hungary's Orban says EU didn't learn from terror attacks

By PABLO GORONDI migration; and giving mi-
Associated Press grants prepaid bank cards.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — "We want to defend our se-
The Hungarian government curity and our Christian cul-
has expanded its new pub- ture," Orban said, alleging
lic campaign accusing Eu- that "to attain their objec-
ropean Union leaders of tive" the EU wants to crack
promoting mass migration, down on countries like Hun-
sending citizens a letter gary that have resisted tak-
from the prime minister that ing in asylum-seekers.
warns "the Brussels bureau- The European Commis-
crats want to break the sion's Hungarian office is-
resistance of countries op- sued a detailed rebuttal of
posed to immigration." Orban's claims. It denied
In the one-page letter the EU wants to cut finan-
mailed to households in cial assistance to countries
Hungary, Prime Minister Vik- where the governments
tor Orban said the EU "has have made it known mi-
not learned anything from grants are not welcome or
the horrible terror attacks of welcomed only under nar-
the past years" and "wants row circumstances.
to bring even more mi- Katalin Cseh, right, of the Momentum opposition party helps to place a sticker saying "Every sixth The rebuttal also said pre-
grants to Europe" through Hungarian child is born abroad. paid bank cards were be-
new measures now under Associated Press ing used only in Greece
development. to support the integration
A separate sheet mailed ban claimed encourage rights to border protec- that support migration; cut- of refugees and asylum-
with the note listed seven migration. They include tion; giving more money ting financial assistance to seekers, not to encourage
alleged EU policies that Or- weakening member states' to "political activist groups" countries viewed as anti- immigration.q

Germany: Ex-Sig Sauer executives on trial over Colombia sale

Associated Press German authorities. plea.
BERLIN (AP) — Three former Sig Sauer denies skirting An announcement on a
executives of German gun German arms trade restric- possible settlement is ex-
maker Sig Sauer went on tions, saying it acted legally pected when the trial re-
trial Tuesday in Germany when it shipped the guns to sumes Wednesday.
on suspicion of illegally sell- the U.S. Prosecutors charge In a separate case last
ing firearms to Colombia that the company knew week, a German court
by funneling them through where the shipment would gave two former employ-
a U.S. sister company. eventually end up. ees of gun maker Heckler &
The trial in the northern city At the time the weapons Koch suspended sentences
of Kiel centers on 180 ship- were sent to Colombia, the for their role in the delivery
ments of semi-automatic Latin American nation's se- of thousands of firearms
SP 2022 pistols transferred curity forces were engaged that ended up in troubled
from Sig Sauer's factory in in a decades-long conflict areas of Mexico, and or-
Germany to its New Hamp- with guerrilla groups. dered the confiscation of
shire affiliate from 2009 to Kiel court spokeswoman proceeds from the sales to-
2011. Rebekka Kleine said judges, taling some 3.7 million euros This Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, file photo shows the sign at the en-
trance to the headquarters of Sig Sauer, a gun manufacturer
Prosecutors claim that prosecutors and defense ($4.2 million). based in Newington, N.H.
more than 38,000 of the lawyers discussed Tues- Peace campaigners in Associated Press
47,000 pistols shipped to day whether there can be Germany have long tried
the United States were a settlement in the case. to curb the sale of German Welle found evidence that men. Germany recently
subsequently forwarded Under German law, such weapons abroad. German military equipment stopped issuing licenses
to Colombia, in breach of a move wouldn't require A report Tuesday by pub- is being used by the Saudi for arms exports to Saudi
the export license issued by the defendants to make a lic broadcaster Deutsche Arabia-led coalition in Ye- Arabia.q