COZMA IS FREE!
After Michael Jackson was found innocent in the US…in Romania,
Miron Cozma was freed this evening, after the Court in Craiova admitted his contestation against his last arrest mandate.
The aresst was made after the former President Ion Iliescu pardoned Cozma as a last controversial gesture as a President (Iliescu is today on trial for his implication in the same events in June 13 -15, 1990 – the same events that put Miron Cozma into jail the first time)
The Court freed the jailed leader of a miners' riot that helped topple the country's first post-communist government in 1991, upholding the controversial pardon given him by the president in December.
Miron Cozma had spent seven years in jail out of an 18-year sentence when then President Ion Iliescu pardoned him just before leaving office. Two days later Iliescu cancelled the pardon because of public outrage at home and abroad.
Cozma appealed against the cancellation of his pardon, seen at the time as a favour by Iliescu, 75, to a political ally.
"The court approved the petitioner's complaint. The court orders the petitioner to be freed immediately," a judge from the court in the southern city of Craiova told the private television station Realitatea TV.
In September 1991, Cozma led thousands of coalminers from the northwestern Jiu Valley to Bucharest, where they invaded parliament, set fire to government buildings and forced Prime Minister Petre Roman to resign.
Iliescu, who ruled Romania for 11 of the 15 years after the fall and execution of Stalinist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, has been accused of masterminding the riots (especially the one in June 1990) to tighten his shaky grip on power. He has repeatedly denied the claims.
Last week prosecutors summoned him to a criminal inquiry into similar violence in June 1990, when 20,000 coalminers came to Bucharest and crushed demonstrations against Iliescu's rule, leaving six people dead and more than 100 wounded.
Iliescu denied allegations that he had summoned the miners, saying they themselves decided to board trains to the capital to rescue the nation from "hooligans" demonstrating against him.
Miron Cozma was freed this evening, after the Court in Craiova admitted his contestation against his last arrest mandate.
The aresst was made after the former President Ion Iliescu pardoned Cozma as a last controversial gesture as a President (Iliescu is today on trial for his implication in the same events in June 13 -15, 1990 – the same events that put Miron Cozma into jail the first time)
The Court freed the jailed leader of a miners' riot that helped topple the country's first post-communist government in 1991, upholding the controversial pardon given him by the president in December.
Miron Cozma had spent seven years in jail out of an 18-year sentence when then President Ion Iliescu pardoned him just before leaving office. Two days later Iliescu cancelled the pardon because of public outrage at home and abroad.
Cozma appealed against the cancellation of his pardon, seen at the time as a favour by Iliescu, 75, to a political ally.
"The court approved the petitioner's complaint. The court orders the petitioner to be freed immediately," a judge from the court in the southern city of Craiova told the private television station Realitatea TV.
In September 1991, Cozma led thousands of coalminers from the northwestern Jiu Valley to Bucharest, where they invaded parliament, set fire to government buildings and forced Prime Minister Petre Roman to resign.
Iliescu, who ruled Romania for 11 of the 15 years after the fall and execution of Stalinist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, has been accused of masterminding the riots (especially the one in June 1990) to tighten his shaky grip on power. He has repeatedly denied the claims.
Last week prosecutors summoned him to a criminal inquiry into similar violence in June 1990, when 20,000 coalminers came to Bucharest and crushed demonstrations against Iliescu's rule, leaving six people dead and more than 100 wounded.
Iliescu denied allegations that he had summoned the miners, saying they themselves decided to board trains to the capital to rescue the nation from "hooligans" demonstrating against him.
It's quite interesting...we might see Cozma free, putting Iliescu in jail with his testimony about the events in 13-15 June 1990 and Mr Iliescu’s implication in the riots.
But it is so hard to believe that Mr Iliescu will spend his last years in jail…
Time will tell…
Cozma is free now…but he might be prosecuted and condemned for the events in September 1991 also…and getting back to jail…he might become jail-mate with Ion Iliescu…
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But it is so hard to believe that Mr Iliescu will spend his last years in jail…
Time will tell…
Cozma is free now…but he might be prosecuted and condemned for the events in September 1991 also…and getting back to jail…he might become jail-mate with Ion Iliescu…
Here on PerformYourMagic blog you can find Personal & Business Development Training, Team Building, Coaching, Consulting Services, free powerful tools, news, links and articles for Successful people...Recommended by Cristian C. Francu
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