A 97-year-old man accused of war crimes during the Nazi Holocaust has been detained in his native Hungary. Laszlo Csatary is accused of overseeing the deportation of around 16,000 Jews to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. The Simon Wiesenthal Center had named Csatary its most wanted surviving war crimes suspect from the Nazi Holocaust. He lived in Canada for decades after the war, but fled in 1997 to avoid deportation. International criminal attorney Adam Gellert said it remains unclear if Hungarian authorities will issue an indictment.

Adam Gellert: “We had witnessed that the second suspect interview had just taken place in less than two weeks. Mr. Csatary is 97 years old, and the prosecution should move very fast forward. It always depends, as you see, on the international pressure being exacted on the Hungarian authorities. In this case, there has been substantial amount of pressure. But I believe that the prosecution service is now duly investigating this case. The question still remains whether an indictment will be lodged or not.”