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Former President Ion Iliescu, former Prime Minister Petre Roman and former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) Virgil Magureanu were sent to court by military prosecutors in the case of the June 13 - 15, 1990 violent events when miners crushed a sit-in anti-government protest.
The announcement was made in a press statement by a military prosecutor. Military prosecutors claim that in the period 11 - 15 June 1990, the defendants have decided, organized and coordinated "a generalized and systematic attack," launched against the civil population, against the manifestations in the University Square in Bucharest respectively, as well as against the population residing in Bucharest, an attack which involved the participation of armed forces of the Interior Ministry (MAI), National Defence Ministry (MApN), Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), as well as a number of over ten thousand miners and other workers from multiple areas of the country.
The alleged attack, prosecutors say, had the following consequences: the killing of four persons by shooting and the wounding of three others by the same means; harming the physical or psychical integrity of 1,269 persons; deprivation of freedom, for political reasons, of a total number of 1,242 persons.
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