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.” The policemen of the Baru Mare police section claim that the deeds would have occurred on 17 May 2015, but there is no certain piece of evidence to confirm the alleged crime. The file “executed” by deputy commissioner Tăşală Dorin was dismissed a few days later, but the prosecutors used it in order to show that the so-called environmentalists had also been assaulted by us a week earlier.

The 7th Baru Mare Rural Police Section had received, on 24 May 2015, the mission to conduct the criminal investigation in the case of the attempted murder. The section has under its subordination five police stations, located in the communes: Baru, Pui, Sălaşu de Sus, Băniţa, and Sântămarie Orlea. Politically, the area is “controlled” also from Baru, by the commune’s mayor – Daniel Răducanu, the most influential political figure in Ţara Haţegului. During that period, at Baru a micro-hydropower plant was being built in the Dinosaurs’ Geopark, an investment similar to ours, but which was never the target of the protests, even though most of our local harassers were inhabitants of Baru commune. This is the general framework under which the events you are about to learn below unfolded.

Baru, the Headquarters of My Harassers

Mayor Daniel Răducanu had a very close relationship with the members of the “local division” of agitators from Baru commune: “I have known Leordean Vasile for several years, being married to a girl from the village of Livadia, Baru commune; I am a friend of his. Sara Leordean I met at a barbecue, I believe after the incident of 24 May 2015, she being at that date the girlfriend of Luca Sălaşan, and I am a family friend of Luca’s family, but I did not talk with either of them about the incident”. Likewise, Daniel Răducanu admits that he had economic relations (and not only) with Alin Andrioni: “Over the course of 2-3 months, I bought construction materials from Mr. Andrioni Alin’s warehouse on several occasions”; “…of the factors involved, I previously knew only Mr. Andrioni; the first time I saw him was a few years ago, I went to a friend’s home for Christmas, in Baru commune, and Mr. Andrioni was singing carols in the home of my friend, Leordean Vasile” (doc.1).

About Daniel Răducanu’s involvement in the MHP business at Baru, there was talk in the public space, but the subject was treated superficially by the competent bodies of the state (Episode 11). “Question: In the area of Baru commune, there is a micro-hydropower plant built; what do you know about the investors? Answer: Yes, there is a micro-hydropower plant and there are two sets of investors, namely the company Renewables Invest which initially belonged to some persons whose identity I do not remember, and the current owner is a Torcado family, whom I know. From mayor Daniel Răducanu’s statement it results that the micro-hydropower plant on Băruşor, built in the Dinosaurs’ Geopark, was completed in 2015. That is, exactly in the same period in which I was the target of the criminal attack, provoked by the “young environmentalists,” who came to harass me from the very locality shepherded by mayor Răducanu. Daniel Răducanu was heard a few months before the conclusion of the investigation, and I believe that his hearing was a mere formality, even though the facts show that he is not at all a stranger to the group of my harassers.

Documents Cobbled Together in Haste

The file concerning the “deed” of 17 May 2015 was thrown together on Monday, 25.05.2015, the day that followed the attempted murder, when it was also registered at the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Haţeg Court, where it received the unique number 456/P/2015. Practically, this is also the moment when the file for battery or other violence of 17 May officially appeared: after the attempted murder file (no. 426/P/2015) of 24 May. In those hours, the “young environmentalists” appeared on television as the victims of the scandal at Râul Alb, and the investigators constructed evidence to support this theory.

The “activist” Sălăşan Luca claims that he was assaulted by Coman Alin on 17 May 2015, when he was in the village of Coroieşti together with his girlfriend, Leordean Sara. The two declare that they reported the deed, immediately after the incident, through a telephone call to the 112 emergency service, but also through a denunciation filed at the Sălaşu de Sus Police Station. In reality, there is NO certain piece of evidence to confirm the crime. Procedurally, if the notification was made on 17.05.2015, it should have been registered that day in the events-notifications register of the Sălaşu de Sus Police Station. At this police station no notification made by Sălăşan appears. There is, however, a series of documents meant to create the appearance that the notifications would have been made at the Pui police. This, given that we have FOUR statements given before the prosecutor, in which Sălăşan Luca and Leordean Sara declare that they presented themselves and filed the complaint at Sălaşu de Sus. What are the Pui policemen doing in this story? They have no competence because the “deed” took place in Sălaşu commune, and the victim is from Baru commune. My conviction is that there was no complaint on 17 May 2015 and that all the documents in the file were made retroactively with the “pen” by deputy commissioner Tăşală Dorin with the complicity of several policemen of the Baru Mare police section.

Probably the Pui Police Station was the only one in the 7th Baru Section where a “loophole” was found in the events register that would allow the retroactive registration of the notification. First of all, in the file there is NO recording of the conversation from the 112 service. Why is this piece of evidence essential? Because the two “environmentalists” cannot agree on which of them called the emergency service. Sălăşan Luca says that: “My girlfriend called 112 and we went to the Sălaşu de Sus Police Station” (doc.2), and Leordean Sara says that, in fact: “When we left there, my boyfriend called 112 and we went to the nearest police station to file a complaint. We were at the Sălaşu de Sus police station where my boyfriend formulated a complaint” (doc.3). Although there is no proof of the SNUAU 112 call on 17.05.2015, the head of the Pui Police Station, chief agent Mânja Cornel, drew up letter no. 459/18.05.2015, from which it results that the notifications (through SNUAU 112 and in person) were made at Pui (doc.4). From the letter it results that he attached in the correspondence a report recording the complaint, signed by Sălăşan Luca, against the named Coman Alin.

The report is dated 17 May 2015 and was drawn up by chief agent Frențoni Doinel, from the Pui Police Station (doc.5) How could Sălăşan Luca sign a document drawn up at Pui, when he claims, loud and clear, that he filed the denunciation at Sălaşu de Sus, an aspect confirmed by his girlfriend as well? Moreover, the letter of the Pui station chief (dated 18 May 2015) would have reached the Sălaşu de Sus Police Station on 21 May 2015, where it received the registration number 160/21.05.2015, but the “attached” report arrived only on SUNDAY 24.05.2015, AFTER the attempted murder against me had taken place. So, the documents were sent at once, in the same envelope, but arrived one by one, at intervals of a few days… Likewise, the record sheet of the crime reported on 17 May 2015 (no. 620188) is also registered on SUNDAY, 24.05.2015, after the attempted murder took place (doc.6). And also with the date of 24 May 2015 is dated the order to begin the criminal investigation against Coman Alin, a document drawn up by chief agent Olaru Vlăduţ Lucian, from the 7th Baru Police Section – Sălaşu de Sus Police Station (doc.7).

Let us recapitulate: on 24 May 2015, at Sălaşu de Sus a crime had occurred that all of Romania was talking about, but the local policemen were up to their necks drawing up a file concerning deeds that had taken place seven days earlier. Is it possible?! The documents demonstrate very clearly that the file was fabricated, in haste, when I was dying and work was being done on all “fronts” to produce justificatory documents in favor of the perpetrator of the crime.

From the Use to the Abuse of the Law. Because They Can!

The above file mattered only from the perspective of the attack committed against me. Moreover, the first testimonies about the incident of 17 May 2015 were recorded in the attempted murder file, without an honest hearing of both parties. The investigators recorded what the “victims” (Sălăşan Luca and Leordean Sara) say, as well as the opinions of all the other activists who claim to hold “hearsay” information about this incident: Leordean Vasile, Dejeu Călin, Păun Gabriel, and Andrioni Alin. On the other side, on the evening of 24 May, we have only the testimony of Coman Nelu. Why did the prosecutors not respect the principle “Audiatur et altera pars”? Because they can! The almost unilateral recording of a deed should not appear in the process of administering justice. And yet… The investigators of the attack at Râul Alb were to demonstrate that they can be even more abusive than that.

On 28.05.2015, the statements¹ of Sălăşan Luca, in his capacity as injured person, and of the witness Leordean Sara, were taken, in case 456/P/25.05.2015. On this occasion, Sălăşan Luca withdrew his complaint, expressly specifying that he no longer requests that the accused be heard and that they no longer have any kind of claims from the criminal investigation bodies. Nevertheless, the policemen continue with excessive zeal and hear Coman Nelu and Coman Alin on 04.06.2015 (doc.8), after which they close the file with a proposal for dismissal. In this regard, the prosecutor issues the Order of dismissal on 29.06.2015 (doc.9).

The cobbling together of documents proves beyond doubt that the battery file was made retroactively and without any evidence. There is no trace in the documents of the Haţeg Hospital to confirm that the two “environmentalists” were consulted on 17 May. It does not result from any document that the two would have been at the Haţeg hospital that day, as they declared, and in the file there is no medical consultation chart from which it would result that they had suffered injuries. Why did the policemen continue to produce false evidence in a file that was based on nothing? Because the “environmentalists” had to appear as victims (not executioners, as they actually were) and because the alleged aggression of 17 May 2015 had to be placed strategically in the attempted murder file. All the documents from that dismissed file were annexed to the attempted murder case. Only the dismissal order was missing, deliberately omitted in order to create the impression that the battery deed exists. The order I filed in the case myself.

Criminal case no. 456/P/2015 was constructed artificially and had a very short life, but its ghost haunted the attempted murder case for six years in order to provide a history of victims to the true aggressors of the criminal action at Râul Alb of 24 May 2015.

Notes:

1 Witness statements Sălăşan Luca (doc.10) and Sălăşan Sara (doc.11), file 456/18.05.2015