Balkan Champion

In autumn 1989, my father told us he'd taken on the defence of the minister László Tökés. Now I don't remember much of what happened then, only that parents were in agreement, which was rare situation in their 20 years of marriage. I was 17 at the time, my sister was 9, and all of us knew that he'd put his life in danger.
"He gave a blazing speech against the former secret service, the Securitate, saying he'd fight personally to put them all behind bars. It was political suicide."