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| MEDIA HEADLINES 2/02/2009 |
| (2009-02-02) |
| Last updated: 2009-02-03 18:02 EET |
Grabbing the headlines of Romanian newspapers is not the present political and economic situation, but legal matters. Earth-shattering criminal affairs fight for printing space not only in tabloids, but also in the more serious publications, all that enabling the Romanian daily COTIDIANUL to highlight that “despite the ongoing crisis, the criminal year has seen an exceptional debut: 55 weapons disappeared from an army warehouse located in Ciorogirla, nearby Bucharest; then an individual shot two people dead in Brasov (central Romania) while in Constansa (in the south-east) police confiscated a ton of drugs”. Among all these, the capture of the 1,200 kilos of pure cocaine, smuggled into the country from Latin America and whose market value stands at tens of millions of Euros, is the only one the authorities can brandish as a sample of success.
The daily GARDIANUL says however, that the smugglers, two Romanians and a Spaniard, got caught red-handed as they turned out to be too naïve. “ The Cocaine from Constantsa, brought to light because bribe to customs officers was too big” – the newspaper carries on, explaining that “the network was exposed after one of the criminals tried to offer 20,000 Euros worth of bribe for a customs officer, to control only superficially the containers coming from Brazil. Yet the Ciorogirla and Brasov events are simply disqualifying for the Justice system, as well as for the Romanian Army and Police and the special services that, according to another Romanian daily, ZIUA, have turned the country into “a village with no watchdogs”. Weapons disappearing, without trace, from a maximum-security place such as a military unit from a NATO member country have caused many people being made redundant at the Ministry of Defense, from low-ranking non-commissioned officers to heads of military Counterintelligence Services”.
Eventually, the daily COTIDIANUL has discovered’ “bombs among gunshots in Brasov”. The fact that the main suspect, a backslider from the neighboring Republic of Moldova “was somewhere else when the criminal offence was committed” is of the least importance. Mind-boggling is the fact that the offender led a normal life in Brasov, although he was under general pursuit and had a 15 year sentence to serve for armed assault. Released from prison for three months to treat his glaucoma, the gunman wasn’t kind enough to return to prison. Which prompted the daily GANDUL headline one of its articles: ”the open gates prison”. The newspaper also writes “that 120 jailbirds did not come back after they had been released, their medical certificates featuring such diagnoses as claustrophobia, the nasal septum deviation and testicle atrophy.”
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