USR leader Elena Lasconi claims that, six years after the protests in Piaţa Victoriei, it has not been found out who gave the brutal orders to the citizens. “Iohannis and his pesedist friends should take their boots off the neck of Justice,” she says.
Elena Lasconi, USR leader PHOTO: Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea
“6 years ago I was in Victory Square at the protest. I was lucky, not like others near me, who inhaled the tear gas to the full. I then went out into the streets to stop the attack that the PSD, with Dragnea’s hand, was giving to the Romanian Justice. You remember, don’t you? There were thousands of people, some from far away, from abroad, and we were all trying to tell PSD: “So far! You cannot trample on democracy in this country.” But, at the end of the evening, they stepped on our feet, giving abnormal orders to the Gendarmerie”writes Elena Lasconi, on Facebook.
The USR president also says that “six years have passed and we still haven’t found out who gave the brutal orders, who was wrong, who had no respect for the citizens who protested peacefully, civilized”.
“600 people filed criminal complaints for what they experienced that evening. 600 people asked for justice, but the politicized and co-opted Justice by Iohannis, Dragnea, Predoiu, Gorghiu is still taking time and, most likely, we could see this file prescribed as well. Until here! You cannot trample on democracy in this country!” this is the message I have for PSD even today, after six years. Iohannis and his pesedist friends should take their boots off the neck of Justice. Romania needs a Judiciary that is left to do its job, a government that respects its citizens and a president that works in their interest! August 10, 2024 be the last August 10 in which we talk about the assault that Iohannis and PSD are giving to Justice! On August 10, 2025, let’s talk about how we solved this problem!”claims Lasconi.
In 2023, the August 10 File was sent to court by the military prosecutors, targeting 16 gendarmes, including the heads of the Romanian Gendarmerie at that time.
Investigators claim that “the forceful intervention of the gendarmes was done in violation of the principles of necessity, gradualness and proportionality, principles enshrined in the relevant legal regulations and reflected in ECtHR jurisprudence. Thus, it was noted that the gendarmes acted not only against the people who demonstrated violently, in order to isolate them and apply legal measures, but also against the peaceful demonstrators, who constituted the vast majority of the protesters”.
The gendarmes used 63 hand grenades with an acoustic effect, 489 hand grenades with an irritating tear gas effect, 316 cartridges of 38 mm caliber. and 40 mm., also with tear irritant effect, 8 sprayers of increased capacity and 168 hand sprayers, the press release states.
