Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) co-chairman and MP George Simion said on Friday that no acts of violence had been committed when he entered Timisoara City Hall, noting that there was "no local policeman or other authority" to ask him anything.
"What Dominic Fritz [the mayor of Timisoara - ed.n.] said is a blatant lie. Those people were not brought by bus, we have nothing to do with the New Right, which had a protest half an hour later. (...) No act of violence was committed, we entered the Timisoara City Hall without any local policeman or any other authority coming to ask us anything. Neither a certificate nor what we want," Simion told the press.
He added that only when he reached the first floor of the institution was he questioned by a person who did not recommend himself and to whom he told the purpose of the visit - to obtain a meeting for a person who had failed to do so for a month and a half.
The mayor of Timisoara, Dominic Fritz (Save Romania Union - USR), said on Friday that "a gang of AUR members and supporters, led by George Simion", had illegally entered the mayor's office "by physical force" in order to create "chaos and panic in the institution and among the Timisoara residents" who were in the headquarters, Agerpres informs.