Pressure was growing on Hungary last night to prosecute the "most wanted" surviving Nazi war criminal after France demanded that "there can be no immunity" for those accused of carrying out the Holocaust.

The French foreign ministry has joined Nazi hunters and Jewish community groups to call on prosecutors in Hungary to arrest Laszlo Csatary, 97, for his role in organising the deportation of 15,700 Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz.
" We believe that Nazi criminals, wherever they are, must answer for their acts before justice," said a spokesman for the French foreign ministry.
Csatary, who tops the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's most-wanted list of the Nazi war criminals, was last weekend discovered living peacefully in Budapest under his own name.
He had left Canada when he was unmasked by war crimes investigators in 1995.
Csatary fled Europe at the end of the war after being sentenced to death "in absentia" in 1948 by a Czechoslovakian court for crimes committed while he was police chief from 1941 in the Slovakian city of Kosice, then part of Hungary.

While in the town, known as Kassa in Hungarian and Kaschau in German, he was renowned for his brutality, beating women with a whip he carried on his belt and forcing them to dig holes with their bare hands.
During the war, he organised deportations of thousands of Jews to death camps in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe and is accused of complicity in the killing of at least 16,000 people.
Csatary has officially been under investigation by the Hungarian authorities since 11 September 2011 and is locally reported as having been under police surveillance since April.
Sources told The Daily Telegraph that the investigation is taking a long time because the crimes "took place 68 years ago in an area that now falls under the jurisdiction of another country".
But Nazi hunters have expressed frustration at delays.
" This man is healthy and he drives his own car," said Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem.
" Nothing has happened and I am very frustrated. At Csatary's age health can deteriorate from one day to another. We must act quickly. The passage of time does not diminish his guilt and old age should not provide protection for the perpetrators of the Holocaust."
Jewish students protested last night on "Gyori ut", the smart Budapest street where Csatary lives, demanding his immediate arrest.
" We are proud to do our part in bringing the world's attention to this evil man and his horrific crimes," said Andi Gergely, the president of the European Union of Jewish Students.
A Hungarian spokesman yesterday said: "The government has always supported the exhaustive exploration of past crimes and the prosecution of perpetrators."

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