Locals allege that not long before the murder, the police stopped a truck loaded with supposedly stolen metal but the driver threatened the policeman while sticking a pistol in his mouth.
[4] The Patrióta Lokál, the scene of the murder is a bar mostly serving as a club with a stable guest circle (including the handball team).
[5] In the afternoon on Saturday, 7 February 2009, a criminal from Veszprém, who had just left the prison knocked down one of the members of the clan, who suffered severe injuries.
The clan-member organized a group of family and friends from the villages of Enying and Dég (different sources cite 15, 20 or 30 people, including suspected Iván Sztojka, Sándor Raffael and Győző Németh) to take a vengeance and started to search for the person in Veszprém at night to "settle" the problem.
The murder was caught on tape by nearby surveillance cameras,[12][13] and records proved that the person who actually killed Cozma was Sándor Raffael.
[15] Footage showing Győző Németh, the second suspect in the murder case, handcuffed and being detained by the Austrian police became publicly available.
Ferenc Gyurcsány, the Hungarian prime minister criticized the newspaper, saying that the gravity of the criminal act is to be considered, not the ethnic origin of the suspects.
[17] After a nationwide manhunt which included setting up a special investigative unit[18] and offering 2 million Hungarian Forints (approximately €7,000) for information on the suspect's whereabouts, Iván Sztojka gave himself up at the Veszprém Police station on the night of 12 February, at the pressures of the leader of his Romani community.