War crimes suspect László Csatáry was formally charged on Tuesday after a year under house arrest after reporters from the UK’s Sun newspaper tracked him down to a flat in a Buda suburb. The 97-year-old former police commander is suspected of complicity in the transportation in 1944 of 15,700 Jews from Kosice, now in Slovakia, to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. He is the most-wanted suspect in the Nazi-hunting Wiesenthal Center’s “Operation last Chance”. The trial has been given top-priority status because of the nature of the alleged crimes, and the first hearing should be heard within three months.
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