The actor George Burcea, who is running for the City Hall of the Capital from POT, posted a video on social networks in which he accuses the press of distorting a message of his from 2021 in which he urged men to beat their partners.
Actor George Burcea accuses the press of distorting his message from 2021. PHOTO: Instagram collage
After, in 2021, George Burcea urged his followers on Instagram to beat their partners “with tables, with chairs”, because, in his opinion, some women deserve this and he admitted that he was wrong, here now, as a candidate for the Capital City Hall from the POT, when the press brought the incident back to attention, he claims that he is a victim of the mass media, which truncated and distorted his message.
“I wish, in this way, to respond accusations in the mediabased on a montage made from truncated fragments of the original video.
My purpose is only to show you the real context of these statements.
The most important thing, especially in the online environment, is to know what sources you are getting your information from.
I will not comment on this slippage, but I regret that we are still at a point where public opinion can be easily influenced by false information.” he wrote on Facebook, Tuesday, November 4, alongside a video material, which he says was taken out of context.
“Guys, women, I’m fighting you, yes? I’m for you, for understanding and love, for understanding the couple, and you swear at me for cooking? Well, girls, I repeat, I want you to have men who, when they come from work, take you in the palm of their hands. With tables, with chairs, with caps, as my grandfather used to give my grandmother, 15-20-30 years ago. I want caps on your heads, honestly, because it seems that you deserve it. (…) beat them! If the soup is not hot, beat them, bro, that’s probably worth it. Let me reach the whole TikTok and the whole internet in Romania…. stated George Burcea in 2021.
Also in 2021, following a wave of negative reactions after the distribution of this message, he admitted that he was wrong and that he said “some angry things”.
“I want to publicly apologize for what I said in yesterday’s live on my Instagram page. The live was about domestic violence. After a wave of offensive comments towards me, I had a reaction that I am very ashamed of. I was wrong in the way I expressed myself, I was wrong in the way I reacted, but the biggest mistake is that I said some things in anger that I do not resonate with and that I do no honor to myself or to any woman“, George Burcea made his mea culpa.
Now, however, George Burcea has changed his mind and states that he is a victim of the media, which publishes “false information” and tries to damage his image. A rather “wrinkled” image already, after, in 2020, he was caught drugged behind the wheel. The incident took place near the residence of the artist Andreea Bălan, his ex-wife, with whom he has two daughters, and the analyzes came out positive for cocaine, so that, two years after the incident, in 2022, he was convicted of driving under the influence of prohibited substances.
