President Nicusor Dan declared on Wednesday that he is not satisfied with the Romanian justice system, especially the prosecutor's offices, regarding the phenomenon of human trafficking, noting that the investigation takes a very long time and is not targeted, often a bureaucratic activity.
"I am not satisfied with the justice system in Romania, especially the prosecutor's offices, as I have said many times, on many phenomena, including this one. On the one hand, in the area of prosecutor's offices, the investigation takes far too long and is not targeted. It is very, very often a bureaucratic activity in which we send each other papers and in which we are not able to separate important cases from much less important cases and then the activity of the prosecutor's office is very, very often extremely bureaucratic," said Nicusor Dan, asked about the phenomenon of human trafficking and if he is satisfied with the way in which the Romanian justice system treats this subject.
The head of state added that, on the other hand, when it reaches the trial phase, "important cases take an extremely long time."
"How can we correct these matters? It will be an evolution over time. In any case, we must give great importance to the managerial activity of the heads of prosecutors' offices," he added.
Nicusor Dan spoke about his experiences, as mayor, with prosecutors' offices attached to judges.
"I have some trivial experiences, as mayor, with prosecutors' offices attached to judges, which treated similar issues, which could have been settled once and for all, in an absolutely uneven and bureaucratic manner. And any prosecutor who received a type of file would apply an algorithm and get away with it, solving it in one day. It didn't happen and I imagine that this happens in very, very many areas of prosecutors' offices. So, first and foremost, management in prosecutors' offices, targeting areas of corruption that we see; and second, it's also a matter of management in terms of the courts, because here too we are somehow overloaded with files and there is no clear mind to simplify the whole process," Nicusor Dan also said.
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