Several thousand people attended a Pride march in the Hungarian university city of Pecs on Saturday in defiance of an official ban, AFP observed. AFP counted between 7,000 and 8,000 protestors who set off from the city centre at around 2:00 pm local time (1200 GMT). Police banned the Pecs Pride march on September 6, followed by the Supreme Court on September 15, and participants could face fines. Viktor Orban's ultraconservative government adopted a law banning LGBTQ parades in mid-March. Members of the European Parliament including independent Romanian MEP Nicolae Stefanuta and Luxembourg's green MEP Tilly Metz showed up to show solidarity with the LGBTQ community.