The president of the Senate, Nicolae Ciuca, leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), recalled, on Saturday, the day of August 10, 2018, when the Gendarmerie intervened against the protesters in Piata Victoriei (in front of the government, ed. n.) stressing that it was "a symbolic moment, when Romanians showed that they can mobilize to defend justice from the political assault coordinated by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) leadership at the time".
"August 10, 2018 showed us how important it is to defend democracy and the right to free expression against any regime that tries to suppress the voice of the people. We must never forget those dark moments in recent history and we must do everything we can so that such events will never happen again. August 10, 2018 remains a symbolic moment, in which Romanians showed that they can mobilize to defend justice from the political assault coordinated by the PSD leadership at the time," Ciuca wrote on Facebook.
The liberal leader pleaded for a state that respects its citizens and where justice is "functional, efficient and fair".
"The disproportionate reaction of law enforcement against those who peacefully exercised their right to protest dealt a serious blow to citizens' trust in state institutions at that time," added Nicolae Ciuca.
The president of Save Romania Union (USR), Elena Lasconi, said on Saturday that August 10 represents "the day when the PSD showed how far it goes when it has the power", referring to the protest that took place on this date, in 2018, when the Gendarmerie intervened against the demonstrators in Piata Victoriei.
In this context, she asked Romania's president Klaus Iohannis and the PSD "to take their boots off the neck of Justice", pleading for a government that respects its citizens and works in their interest.
"Six years ago I was in Piata Victoriei at the protest. I was lucky, unlike others near me, who inhaled, fully, the tear gas. I went out to the street then to stop the attack on the PSD, with the hand of (then social-democrat leader Liviu, ed. n.) Dragnea , against the the Romanian Judiciary. (...) There were thousands of people, some from abroad, and we were all trying to tell the PSD: 'You can't trample on democracy in this country'. At dusk, they trampled on us, giving aberrant orders to the Gendarmerie. Six years have passed and we still haven't found out who gave the brutal orders, who didn't respect the citizens who were peacefully protesting. 600 people have filed criminal complaints for what they experienced that evening. 600 people demanded that justice be done to them, but the politicized and lammed Justice by Iohannis, Dragnea, (current Home Affairs' minister Catalin, ed. n.) Predoiu, (current Justice minister Alina, ed. n.) Gorghiu is still taking time and, most likely, we could see prescribed this file too," Lasconi wrote on Facebook on Saturday.
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