UPDATE Ora 15.14: Protesters arrived in Victoriei Square.
Senator Diana Șoșoacă also joined the protest. She shouted at the spokeswoman and shouted in front of a bank branch: “Out with the multinationals in the country.”
UPDATE 14.56: The head of the Bucharest Gendarmerie about the chaos in the Parliament: It was a peaceful protest, but a violent group broke the lock of the gate / We were not overcome for a moment
UPDATE 14.45: The protesters passed the University Square and marched towards the government on Magheru Blvd.
UPDATE 14.14: The column of AUR protesters goes to the Government. He left the Parliament and is now at Union Square. Several thousand people are taking part in the march, according to G4Media reporters
Photo: G4MediaUPDATE 14.10: USR demands the resignation of Interior Minister Lucian Bode for the way in which the police forces were caught today by the protest organized by AUR in the Parliament. USR claims that the protesters managed to jump the fences and vandalize cars, without the gendarmes intervening to stop them, and two ambassadors were blocked today in the Parliament due to the protest.
UPDATE 14.06: Ministers will no longer come to parliament on Tuesday for budget hearings, as was the original schedule, and will be heard through the video system, according to G4media
UPDATE 13.40: Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca spoke with the Minister of Internal Affairs on Tuesday and asked him to protect the integrity of state institutions, enforcing the law and discouraging all forms of violence, with priority given to protecting Romanians, government spokesman Dan Carbunaru said in protests. take place at the Palace of Parliament.
“The right to free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution, but it must be peaceful and within the limits of the law. Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca spoke with the Minister of Internal Affairs and asked him to protect the integrity of state institutions, enforcing the law and discouraging all forms of violence, with the priority of protecting Romanians “, said the spokesman of the Executive, quoted by Agerpres.
UPDATE 13.20: After more than two hours of protest, AUR co-founder George Simion began singing carols in front of the cordon of gendarmes as he moved from place to place.
UPDATE 13.10: The Bucharest Gendarmerie announced, on Tuesday, a few hours after the beginning of the GOLD protest against the green certificate and long after the protesters entered the courtyard of the Parliament, that it supplemented the public order device in the Parliament area. Although the cars of the ambassadors of the USA and Japan were vandalized, as well as the car of a parliamentarian, the gendarmerie states again that “so far the force and the means of intervention have not been used”.
UPDATE 13.00: AUR co-founder George Simion said on Tuesday afternoon that when the doors of Parliament were locked, he was asked by his fellow MPs and senators where they could go.
The AUR leader claims that he told them to first go to the rostrum of the Parliament and to give guarantees that they will not vote for the introduction of the health certificate and then he will “tell them where to go”.
UPDATE 12.45: The cars of the ambassadors of Japan and the USA in Romania were vandalized by the protesters, in the yard of the Senate, according to G4Media.ro sources.
PSD Senator Titus Corlățean declared on Antena 3 that the Japanese ambassador was unable to leave the Parliament, due to the protesters who entered the yard and tried to force him to enter the building.
UPDATE 12.40: We remind you that AUR announced on Tuesday the protest against the introduction of the Covid certificate at work. The bill is not on Parliament’s agenda, but is still under discussion by the ruling coalition.
A project initiated by the former Government, led by Florin Cîțu, was rejected by the Senate, and the Chamber of Deputies did not discuss it again, pending the project of the new governing coalition.
UPDATE 12.30: The gendarmerie announces, in a communiqué, after the AUR protesters entered the courtyard of the Parliament, that so far the force has not been used and no means have been used. The gendarmerie is calling on the protesters to cooperate and move out of parliament.
UPDATE 12.27: Japan’s ambassador to Romania was in Parliament when protesters entered the courtyard and tried to force entry into the building.
The doors were blocked by law enforcement.
UPDATE 12.20: AUR co-president Claudiu Târziu claims that the escalation of the protest is “a diversion of the authorities to accuse AUR of taking the Parliament by storm”.
UPDATE 12.15: PSD senator’s car was vandalized by protesters who entered the Senate parking lot. Protesters threw paint on the car, sources from the scene told G4Media.ro. However, George Simion claims that the people in the car showed obscene signs to the protesters in order to incite them.
UPDATE 12.10: AUR protesters managed to enter the courtyard of the Parliament because one of the entrance gates was broken, sources from the gendarmerie told G4Media.ro.
Read in full How the protesters managed to enter the courtyard of the Parliament / Gendarmes’ explanations: A gate was broken
UPDATE 12.03: The Protection and Guard Service (SPP) strengthened the protection device in the Parliament, and the massive door at the entrance to the Senate building was blocked, Antena 3 and Digi24 transmit.
UPDATE 11.57: Gendarmes have now blocked the entrance to the courtyard, and several protesters outside Parliament are trying to climb the fences.
Several protesters are climbing fences.
UPDATE 11.49: Protesters block parliamentarians’ cars from entering Parliament’s car park. A car in which a parliamentarian was in was spit on by those who entered the courtyard of the Parliament.
Law enforcement has formed a cordon on the stairs at the entrance to the building, but is not intervening to restore order. Most entrances are blocked by protesters and many lawmakers are unable to reach the building.
Road traffic was also blocked without law enforcement intervening.
UPDATE 11.40: Several hundred protesters entered the courtyard of the Parliament Palace and headed for the entrances to the building. A cordon of gendarmes was formed in front of the entrances to the Parliament.
Public access is not allowed in the courtyard of the Parliament, being guarded gates.
UPDATE 9.44: AUR Co-President George Simion says all entrances to the Chamber of Deputies are blocked by protesters.
A large banner with the message “Freedom without certificates” was placed on the facade of the entrance to the Chamber of Deputies.
“Let’s see how these deputies will vote, they have to come here from 10.00,” Simion was quoted as saying by News.ro.
UPDATE 9.30: More than a thousand people took part in the protest, blocking road traffic in the area.
There are also gendarmes and policemen on the spot.
Participants in the protest, most of whom came by bus from several counties, are on several sides of parliament, trying to encircle the building.
The initial news: AUR members and supporters take part in a protest in the Parliament on Tuesday morning, organized against the adoption of the Covid certificate.
The participants chanted “Freedom”, “We come over you”.
AUR leader George Simion is present at the protest.
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Photo source: Ilona Andrei / G4Media.ro
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