The policeman’s interview with the Direk36 investigative news website went viral, notching up more than 2 million views in a country of just over 8 million eligible voters in days. A crowd-funding campaign started on Friday for the police captain, Bence Szabo, who had resigned from his post after emerging as a whistleblower, surpassed 500,000 euros ($576,000) in just a day.







