The Attack at Râul Alb
The doctors in Romania gave me no chance. I had been crushed under the wheels of an off-road vehicle, driven by an individual who passes himself off as an environmental activist. The case quickly made it onto every news channel. Against my will, I had become a matter of national interest. The Prime Minister at that time — Victor Viorel Ponta, a prosecutor by profession — stepped into the spotlight with a mendacious statement, issued by the Government of Romania, in which he pre-judged the matter in favor of my attackers, and his message changed the entire course of the investigation. The order had been given; I had become a „target.” My executioners moved under the protection of the „system,” while I lay in agony between life and death.
My story — the story of the investments on Râul Alb — has been told in many different ways by the propaganda apparatus of an interest group that claims to defend the Environment. Yet every version has religiously followed two essential lines of manipulation. First, the idea of a hypothetical ecological disaster on „the last virgin valley” has been obsessively pushed — which is entirely false. No, Râul Alb is not a wild river. Every study carried out in the valley proves it. All of them, without a single exception! Just as any person of good faith who visits the area can see for himself, with his own eyes. On the other hand — and now we arrive at the true aim of this manipulation! — the micro-hydropower project on Râul Alb is still included in every official development plan for the region. So the investment can go forward; it is only that, from now on, this business should be handled solely by those persons „approved” by the system. The real stake was (and still is!) that I should disappear from the project at any price. Even at the cost of my life!
How far can the lynching be taken in the oppressive system that has confiscated Romania? That is what I invite you to see, with facts and documents, in what follows.
Episode 1 -„Attack on national security”
The story of the Assassination Attempt at Râul Alb is concrete testimony of how the mafia system operates in Romania. It's a story with people you could meet on the street, but who, at some point, choose to follow orders, out of interest, obedience, or cowardice.
Episode 2 – The Eco Agent “Manipulates for Money and Politics”
The manipulation of collective emotion through a false concern for nature was also exposed from within the “ecological movement” by a biologist with an impeccable reputation.
Episode 3 – Follow the money! Track where the money goes!
Is it normal and legal to receive funding from the Government through the Ministry of European Funds and, at the same time, to block projects and investments classified by law as being of public utility and national interest?
Episode 4 – Recruiting “Followers.” Mobilization and Scandal
The attack at Râul Alb did not fall from the sky as an unfortunate event appearing out of the blue in the middle of a Sunday in May 2015.
Episode 5 – In the Village They Called Me “the Wanderer”
Those who know me know that I have always been an active man. In the village they called me “the Wanderer” because I took advantage of every day spent at Coroiești to walk along the valley of Râul Alb.
Episode 6 – #Rezist Does Not Resist
The media manipulation campaign continued with a new raid at Râul Alb, on 21 May 2015. On the route of the investments, I met Dejeu Călin, Păvaloiu Dan (from TVR 2 Cluj), and two more people with video cameras.
Episode 7 – NGO Members Hunting for the Sensational
It was a Sunday, a week before the attack at Râul Alb. In the area of the construction site at Coroieşti, Sălăşan Luca and his girlfriend – Leordean Sara – made their appearance.
Episode 8 – The Apostles of the Environment, from the Fumes of the Party Straight to the Scandal
The raid on the construction site at Râul Alb of 24 May 2015 had been meticulously prepared, as results from the statements of those involved.
Episode 9 – My Life Collapsed in Less Than 30 Seconds
That is all it took the criminal who, looking at me in cold blood while he was filming, pressed the accelerator pedal until I was dragged under the car and pulled over a distance of 6 meters, moments in which the vehicle passed with the left rear wheel over me...
Episode 10 – The On-Site Investigation, a Shred of Normality in the File
The on-site investigation began half an hour after the commission of the attempted murder. So, the criminal investigation bodies reached the scene immediately, where the traces of the incident were unaltered.
Episode 11 – Volunteers in the Hijacking of the Investigation
To understand the abuses that followed the attempted murder at Râul Alb, it is good to remember the context: it was 2015, the year in which justice was administered in the name of the “national interest” from the living room of General Gabriel Oprea, at the time Minister of the Interior.
Episode 12 – The Fabrication of Evidence, Between the Absurd and Villainy
After the frame-by-frame decomposition of Păun’s footage, it is very clearly seen in the frames that he was not assaulted “instantly.” The images show that Lascu Cornel and Antal Andrei were next to me when I got out of the ATV.
Episode 13 – The Counterfeit Little Films “Dictated” the Course of the Investigation
Before we reached the site, the “apostles of the environment” were waiting for us with three cameras rolling. When I stopped the ATV, one of them provoked us to violence in the style of the diversions practiced by the members of the #Rezist group...
Episode 14 – Favoring the Criminal, Step by Step
Autorul tentativei de omor nu a fost reţinut, aşa cum se procedează pentru o faptă săvârşită cu violenţă, şi nici nu a fost căutat de anchetatori, deşi fugise de la locul faptei.
Episode 15 – Accomplices in the Fabrication of Evidence
The hearings at the Haţeg Police headquarters began on Sunday evening in the presence of prosecutor Herban Dorel. The televisions were roaring: “How the mobsters wanted to kill the foreign journalists”.
Episode 16 – A File „Made by Pen”, Worse than at the Militia
On the evening of 24 May 2015, a few hours after the commission of the attempted murder, criminal case no. 456/P/2015 concerning the crime of battery or other violence against Sălăşan Luca was “fabricated,” retroactively, artificially, and “with the pen.”
Episode 17 – Four Days of Breaking Fake News with Râul Alb
At the Haţeg Police headquarters, the media lynching against us was running on a television set placed in the institution’s hallway. Prosecutor Herban’s hearings lasted until the dawn of Monday, 25 May 2015, but the “eco” aggressors were allowed to go home a little after midnight.
Episode 18 – The Prime Minister’s Message, an Execution Order
After three days of media lynching against me, the disinformation of public opinion became official state policy through the intervention of Prime Minister Victor Viorel Ponta. The head of the Executive launched a message that was to implacably determine the mendacious course of the investigation
Episode 19 – The Protocols of the “Mafia State”
Those who instrumented the file of the attack at Râul Alb worked openly in favor of my aggressors. Immediately after the Prime Minister’s “order,” the prosecutors ordered, “precisely and on time,” the transfer of the file to the General Prosecutor’s Office, a move that was made with an out-of-the-ordinary speed.
Episode 20 – The Transfer to Vienna, a “Passport” to a New Life
About the first hours of hospitalization I remember very little. After I was taken over by the ambulance, I was sedated and had repeated states of fainting.
Episode 21 – The Story of the Collages Meant to Induce the Illusion of Truth
After they fled the scene, the “saviors of the environment” met with Tudor-Todoran Bogdan-Ioan (the lawyer of Păun Gabriel) and went together to recover the camera with which Gerit filmed.
Episode 22 – “My Man of Trust,” Politically Lured
When I returned to the country from recovery, I saw the articles and films posted by the “environmentalists.” The facts were presented exactly the other way around, and I was described as an “underworld figure.”
Episode 23 – The Little Gods of Justice
After all the blows I took, I dared to hope that the people of the oppressive system would have that shred of humanity enough to put an end to the abuses. I was wrong.