A large protest, on Wednesday evening, in Bolintin Vale locality, from Giurgiu county, after a man (taxi driver) was assaulted, losing his life. The police have set up a special public safety zone in the locality, so that the events do not escalate.
The aggressor who was arrested is of Roma origin, and the locals who took to the streets complain that for years they have been terrorized by the Roma elders.
“Have we got the gypsies in our heads?” To kill us on the street ?, the people from Bolintin Vale are complaining.
“I have a child in high school, he is afraid to come home from high school,” says another local.
“Given the event recorded on January 9 this year, in the town of Bolintin Vale, in which a man was assaulted and hit with a stone, later dying, today, several people gathered in the city to protest. A special public safety zone has been set up in the locality, so that the events do not escalate and the climate of public order and safety is ensured. Within the city of Bolintin Vale, there are forces within the structures of the Romanian Police and the Romanian Gendarmerie, to defend the fundamental rights and freedoms of the person, private and public property, prevention and detection of crimes, respect for public order and peace, according to the law “, it is specified in the communiqué sent by IPJ Giurgiu.
The conflict in which the Bolintin Vale taxi driver died took place on the evening of January 9. A young Roma man came into conflict with the taxi driver, hitting him in the head with a stone. Specifically, according to g4media, the maxi-taxi driver did not want to take the young Roma man, known as a troublemaker, in the car. As a result, the young man attacked the driver with a stone, hitting him on the head. The man fell to the ground and later died.
The assailant was arrested on remand, according to information provided by the police.
“In this case, a criminal case was drawn up under the aspect of committing the crime of bodily injury, in which the investigations are continued by the police under the supervision of the prosecutor from the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bolintin Vale Court. The aggressor was initially detained for a period of 24 hours, being introduced in the Giurgiu Detention and Preventive Arrest Center and on January 11 this year he was presented to the court, which ordered his pre-trial detention. Considering that the injured person died, the opportunity to change the legal classification is to be analyzed, depending on the results of the autopsy “, it was specified in the police communiqué.
The protesters arrived in front of the Bolontin Vale City Hall, shouting for the authorities to take measures to stop the acts of aggression and abuse to which they are subjected daily by members of the Roma community.
This is not the first case of a Roma crime in Bolintin Vale
The first bloody conflict in Bolintin Vale took place on the night of April 6-7, 1991, on Easter Sunday, when an ethnic Roma stabbed a student to death for refusing to take him by car. The killer was arrested after only a few hours, but the next morning the sirens went off, and many people gathered in front of the victim’s house.
The villagers began to attack the houses of semi-nomadic Roma, sedentarized by the authorities during the communist period.
21 houses were set on fire and five destroyed.
The houses of the Roma who were integrated were bypassed. The Roma whose houses were destroyed were forced to leave the town. On May 7, 1991, several Roma in this category tried to return to the village, moving into the burning houses. However, the locals came out and set fire to these houses, forcing the Roma to leave the town.
Subsequently, in 2009, the Romanian Government undertook to provide financial compensation to the Roma applicants.
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