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| MEDIA HEADLINES 17/11/2008 |
| (2008-11-17) |
| Last updated: 2008-11-18 18:08 EET |
Compassion for the victims and their relatives and revolt towards the indifference or potential guilt of the authorities. These are the feelings expressed by the press in Romania in the wake of Saturday’s tragedy at the Petrila mine in Jiu Valley (south western Romania) caused by two consecutive explosions which killed 8 miners and 4 rescuers. “Sent to death” the daily ZIUA accuses, saying that the miners who entered the mine knew explosions were likely to occur.
But what’s even worse is that the miners descended in the mine under the employers’ pressure. “Will the miners be blamed again?” the daily ADEVARUL asks, after the heads of the mineral coal company gave assurances that everything had been right and the concentration of methane gas had not exceeded the normal limits.
“They died for 150 lei that is almost 40 euros” headlines the daily COTIDIANUL. The newspaper reads that the first miners who died in Petrila had descended in the mine lured by the gain of a weekend’s day. “Pushed in the arms of death by the fear of unemployment” bitterly writes the daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI.
The newspaper carries the testimonies of some of the miners in Petrila who said they accepted to enter the mine as they were afraid of their bosses, despite the danger they were aware of. The daily GARDIANUL carries similar testimonies and further information according to which the miners who dared complain about labor safety in the mine would have been moved from the underground, which would have meant much lower pay.
The daily GARDIANUL gives the verdict “Murder” while the journalists of the daily GANDUL can hardly hide their resentment towards high level politicians who have tried to speculate the ‘situation’ to their advantage: “Electoral explosion in the Jiu Valey” and “The tragedy in Petrila, a gold mine for politicians”. Editorialist Marius Nitu puts it acidly: ‘before reaching a conclusion regarding the observance of labor safety, authorities are very strict about observing the political procedures of dealing with the accident”.
The editorialist of the daily ROMANIA LIBERA, Dan Cristian Turturica, targets his criticism towards Romania’s perennial politicians. On the one hand he accuses them of misusing the funds meant for upgrading the mining industry and on the other hand he points an accusatory finger at the failure of the labor force re-training project that was drafted immediately after the courageous initiative of closing down unprofitable mining exploitations.
“The failure of this project is the result of a corrupt system that has been maintained and thrived under the rule of Romania’s three post -December -1989 presidents: Ion Iliescu, Emil Constantinescu and Traian Basescu” writes the editorialist of ROMANIA LIBERA. In the daily CURENTUL Tia Serbanescu believes that the management of the mineral coal company should be the first to face dismissal and trial for the fatal mistake of sending rescuers immediately after the first explosion, when obviously the risk of another explosion was imminent. In an article carried by the daily COTIDIANUL Ciprian Ranghel writes that “the Romanian miners had been assassinated by the collective mind before being killed in the underground explosion.
Because the nation hates miners, assimilating them with the violence and barbarian acts committed back in the 1990s, when due to political manipulation, they acted in the name of ‘public good’ against the opponents of the new post-revolutionary power. That is why the press no longer want to give the necessary attention to the social problems miners were facing”, Ciprian Ranghel believes.
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