Romania: Romania: Dozens of NGOs and trade unions urge dismissal of Prosecutor General First Deputy

March 1, 2010

Romania: Dozens of NGOs and trade unions urge dismissal of Prosecutor General First Deputy
Mar 1, 2010

Romania: Dozens of NGOs and trade unions urge dismissal of Prosecutor General First Deputy.
Bucharest, March 1 /Agerpres/ - As many as 40 non-governmental organizations and trade unions have urged, on Monday, the Justice Minister, Catalin Predoiu, the dismissal of the first deputy of Romania's Prosecutor General, Tiberiu Nitu, of the head of the Military Prosecutors Office, Ion Vasilache and of the head of Criminal Pursuit Section of the Prosecutor's Office Marius Iacob for 'defective management' of the criminal investigation of the Romanian Revolution and of the Miners' Riot in June 1889, reveals an open letter signed by the associations and remitted to the press by 21 December 1989 Association.

Organizations amid which 21 December 1989 Association, Former Political Detainees in Romania Association, 'Solidarity - Virgil Sahleanu' Unionist Federation of the Steel Workers in Romania, announced they also urge the criminal investigation 'of the representatives of the so-called justice for favoring the criminals through deliberate postponement of finding the truth'.

'Given the defective management of the justice act, deliberate delaying tactics to obtain the truth about December 1989 genocide and June 1990 fratricide, as well as the 'finalization' of some case files with the decision of non-start of a criminal probe, or with the ceasing of suspects' investigation, we ask you to propose the revocation from office of the following: Tiberiu Nitu Prosecutor General First Deputy, Ion Vasilache, head of the Military Prosecutors Office, Marius Iacob, head of the Criminal Pursuit Section of the Prosecutor's Office', informs the authors of the letter.

Moreover, the signatory organizations drew the attention of President Traian Basescu, Premier Emil Boc and Prosecutor General Laura Codruta Kovesi that the criminal acts committed during the Revolution will be prescribed in two years time, in their mandates, if no action would be taken to solve those cases.

'In other words, you will remain in history in this hypostasis and the handbooks and books will read that under your governance and mandate those guilty escaped justice and truth remained undiscovered. No argument, irrespective of its nature, will resist when confronted with this reality', says the letter addressed to the head of state, to the Premier and the Prosecutor General.

In their letter, the signatories urge the complete declassification of the Revolution files, finalization of the criminal investigation and lawsuits started against the guilty ones, as well as the dismissal of the magistrates who deployed delayed tactics, and the adoption in the Parliament of the Lustration Law.

Likewise, the civic associations addressed another letter to the President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Investigation of the Communist Crimes and Romanian Exile Memory (IICCMER) Vladimir Tismaneanu and to the executive president of IICCMER Ioan Stanomir through which they ask for the setting up of two commissions inside the said institution, namely a Commission investigating the December 1989 anti-communist Revolution reprisal and suppression of anti-communist protests in January and February 1990, of the ethnic violence in Targu Mures, in March 1990, of the reprisal of the demonstrations in University Square in April - June 1990, as well as of the miners/ riots from 1991 and 1999 and a Commission for the study of the workers uprising quelling in Jiului Valley - 1977 and in Brasov - 1987. AGERPRES
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