Romania is currently facing an “organized criminal circle in public institutions, which endangers the safety of the rule of law,” said yesterday Claudiu Dumitriu, President of the Alliance to Combat Abuses and vice president of the National Federation for Animal Protection, at the press conference that announced the establishment of the Social Group for Animal Rights (romanian: Grupul Social pentru Apărarea Drepturilor Animalelor – A.D.A.). Public institutions have become “the worst plague of Romanian society” and “the physical safety of people who try to oppose the system is seriously threatened,” said Claudiu Dumitriu, on the same occasion. A.D.A. was born due to the unprecedented abuses made lately by the Bucharest City Hall, who knowingly violates, through the subordinated institutions, the Court of Appeal’s decision to suspend the implementation rules for 258/2013 Act, also known as “Law Ionut”. After the suspension of implementation rules of “Law Ionut”, the activity of the Authority for Supervision and Protection of Animals – ASPA, a body in the General City Hall, is practically outlawed, but city hall employees continued to catch and kill ownerless dogs. Moreover – backed by unconditional support of Mayor Oprescu and of the force institutions within and/or collaborating with the city hall – local police and gendarmerie, ASPA employees and private firms contracted by ASPA, also illegal, got involved in activities which exceed by far any limit of the law: they attacked people on the streets to steal dogs walked on leash by their owners, they violated private properties and NGO shelters for the same purpose. Therefore, part of the civil society promptly reacted: the citizens, outraged by the fact that the State institutions are those who deliberately and blatantly violate the law, rather than enforce it, took to the streets to document and draw attention to these illegalities. But their public safety is seriously threatened and their rights brutally violated by the City Hall, not only because they are denied the right to free expression and Oprescu chose to put his fist in their mouths, refusing any form of dialogue, but City Hall employees, dogcatchers or the local police have even threated at the physical integrity of those who demanded nothing but respect for the law. The Bucharest citizens are currently confronted with the totally unacceptable situation that commandos formed of ASPA employees, local police and private firms of dogcatchers engaged by the City Hall, escorted by masked men wearing hoods, are rampaging night after night on the streets of the city, in raids to capture ownerless dogs, in a very assumed violation of the law. Furthermore, in almost every night the citizens who ask for compliance of the law and the ending of the ASPA criminal practices are assaulted by the City Hall’s commandos.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:37:37 +0000
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