Mór

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Coordinates: 47°22′19″N 18°12′31″E / 47.37181, 18.20870
Mór Moor
Mór Moor Location of Mór
Country	Hungary
County	Fejér
Area
- Total	108.72 km² (42 sq mi)
Population (2001)
- Total	14,796
- Density	136.09/km² (352.5/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	8060
Area code(s)	22
Website: mor.hu

Aerial photography: Mór - Palace

Mór (German: Moor) is a town in Fejér county, Hungary. It is located at around 47°22′60″N, 18°11′60″E.

Ferenc Krausz, who was rewarded with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2006, was born 17 May 1962 in Mór.

[edit] The Mór massacre

On May 9, 2002, around noon, two armed men entered an Erste Bank office in Mór. For reasons unknown, they shot everyone in the building, including the customers, and left with 7.3 million Forints. Six people died instantly, the two survivors died in the hospital the following day. The case was not only notable for its brutality shown by the perpetrators, but also of the police confusion that followed: 4 days after the incident, police claimed that they apprehended the two gunmen, Szilárd Horváth (who voluntarily gave himself up) and Róbert Farkas; the claim turned out to be false, however, as Horváth proved his alibi, and Farkas turned out to be an unlikely suspect as well. ^[1]

On July 22, police arrested Ede Kaiser and László Hajdú, who were also suspected to have committed the robbery. This claim seemed more plausible, as both suspects had criminal records, and the witness reports seemed to fit their likeness; a month later, however, police major László Ferenczi has admitted that all evidence in the case is indirect, and that the DNA-tests failed to bring a result. The two men were arraigned, found guilty and sentenced between 2004 and 2006.

In the February of 2007, however, events took a sharp turn when a person apprehended after a murder of a postman at Tatabánya claimed to be one of the attackers at Mór. Investigation eventually revealed that the evidence collection in case of Kaiser and Hajdú was blatantly cursory, and that the key witness of the case might have lied in court; the guns used at the robbery were eventually found at the apartment of one of the new suspects.