Tense moments in a DIICOT building, after nine lawyers were stuck in an elevator that allegedly fell several floors, according to a report published on Facebook by lawyer Eliza Ene Corbeanu.
The incident allegedly took place on May 4, in the institution’s new headquarters. According to the lawyer, the nine boarded the elevator together, without exceeding the legal weight limit.
“On May 4, we crowded into the elevator at DIICOT, that new, beautiful and elegant building, where you enter and you have the impression that the elevator is so powerful that it could calculate your blood pressure or the level of prohibited substances in your body (that we are talking about DIICOT). (…) We enter and the door closes. A few seconds pass as the beast climbs up to the 6th floor, then it starts to creak, stops and falls one floor. It is done stillness. Another floor is falling.” he told this in the post that went viral, in the context of the elevator that fell empty yesterday at the CFR Palace in Bucharest, building of the Ministry of Transport.
The lawyer described the atmosphere in the elevator as initially relaxed, with colleagues trying to make jokes and even take selfies to defuse the situation. However, as time went on, panic began to set in.
“We joke, we pick on those who are fuller, we take a selfie and even a video to have evidence, but the sensation was a strange one. What would it be like to turn the corner in the prosecutor’s office? What a bad joke… What I didn’t know then is that there is a very precise moment in life when the body understands before the brain that things have taken an unexpected direction. The elevator shook quite violently, then stopped again. (…)”, wrote Eliza Ene Corbeanu.
According to her, the lawyers were stuck for about 19 minutes and managed to call for help using the phones, which had a signal inside the elevator.
In her message, the lawyer related the incident in an ironic note, saying that “the good thing was that we were getting close to the ground floor and the fall would have softened. The gods were with us that day” and that “too many lawyers would have gone to Heaven at once.”
Until this moment, the representatives of DIICOT have not sent an official point of view regarding the incident or the possible technical problems of the elevator.
The post comes in the context in which an elevator collapsed, Thursday morning, in the building of the Ministry of Transport in Bucharest, located in the CFR Palace on Dinicu Golescu Boulevard. There were 7 people inside the cabin, who were taken out by the intervention teams that arrived on the scene. A similar incident occurred on Monday but was not reported.
