Molotov attack on Broadway ticket office

On 1 April 2008, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the Broadway ticket office in Budapest after days of hostile calls referring to it as a “Jewish ticket office” and greeting staff with “Shalom.” The attack was linked to far-right networks around György Budaházy’s Hunnia movement. Although triggered by a dispute over concert tickets, the threats and framing were explicitly antisemitic, reflecting the growing normalisation of far-right hate speech. The attack prompted large public demonstrations and high-level political condemnation, underscoring rising concern about racist violence in late-2000s Hungary.