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| (2012-03-08) |
| Last updated: 2012-03-09 13:10 EET |
The perpetrator of the armed attack that took place in a beauty salon in downtown Bucharest was placed under temporary arrest for 29 days. Gheorghe Vladan, employed as a driver in the health service subordinated to the Interior Ministry, fired 11 bullets with a Glock gun, killing his wife, who had filed for divorce, and the cashier of the beauty centre and injuring six people.
The Romanian media has given extensive coverage to the incident, revealing severe irregularities and loopholes in the legislation. The daily ROMANIA LIBERA quotes a report issued by the General Police Inspectorate according to which the perpetrator did not have the right to own a firearm. “The file he has submitted for obtaining a firearm permit lacks precisely those documents that would have indicated any possible criminal traits, namely a psychological assessment, his criminal records and an assessment report for applicants for lethal arms possession,” reads the daily.
Bucharest Police officials however deny the accusations, and claim that, quote, “under the legislation in force at that moment, Gheorghe Vladan submitted all the documents required for the release of a firearm permit, in June 2010,” and that the relevant legislation was only modified the next year. ROMANIA LIBERA also writes that just days before the shooting, the perpetrator’s wife had filed a complaint, warning authorities that her husband owned a gun and that he had threatened to shoot her.
Subsequent investigations revealed that neighbours and acquaintances had filed 13 other complaints against him. Under the headline “Who Started the Hairdressers’ Shooting,” the daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI writes that the attack took place the day after Vladan had received a phone call from a police officer, inviting him to the police station in response to his wife’s complaint.
The investigators and psychologists interviewed by EVENIMENTUL ZILEI claim that phone call may have prompted Vladan’s decision to open fire. “The Beauty Salon Murder Beheads the Police,” headlines the newspaper JURNALUL NATIONAL, which mentions that further to the event, the head of the Bucharest Police was dismissed and several officers are under disciplinary investigation for failing to act quickly on the complaints filed by the wife.
ADEVARUL looks at the story from a different perspective. The daily writes that the incident “has brought back to the fore the need to re-introduce the death penalty in Romania,” and quotes a survey carried out by ProDemocratia Association back in 2010, which indicates that 91% of the Romanians are in favour of introducing the capital punishment. Nonetheless, the European Union, which Romania joined five years ago, makes membership to its structures conditional on the abolishment of the death penalty. Moreover, the Constitution of Romania clearly bans this punishment.
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