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. Sălăşan is part of the “local division” of #activists and, according to his own statements, had been there 7-8 times to spy on the place at the urging of Călin Dejeu, to whom he had reported that: “the works on the site were at the same stage as in winter”, as he himself declares before the investigators (video 7.1).
The events of 17 May are ridiculously banal: some horsing around between young people, with no connection to the investments at Râul Alb and without me having known of the existence of that incident. The trivial event of 17 May was amplified, twisted, and publicized by the NGO propaganda, which made me out to be guilty of guarding the valley in mafia style. The absurd conclusion of the former senator Mihai Goţiu is not supported even by the testimonies of the “activists” involved. Here is how the facts are described by the “victim” Sălăşan Luca according to the statements given before the police bodies: “On 17.05.2015, together with my girlfriend, we went to the Daffodil Festival in the locality of Nucşoară, and I told my girlfriend that, since we are in the area, we should go as far as the site area. (…) At this moment, a larger ATV model with 5 seats came next to us, from which 4 men got out. The one who had driven the ATV and about whom I later found out from Sara that his name is Coman Alin, came next to us, and he and the other three began to accuse us that we had come to take photos of some logs that were cut near the bridge so that we could later steal them, and all 4 began to put their hands on my throat, they tore off a medallion from my neck, and because Sara reacted verbally to their accusations and even made an obscene gesture with her finger at them, Coman Alin slapped her across the face. In the end, after I talked with Coman Nelu – the father of Coman Alin – and explained to them the purpose of our presence in the area, he understood, and we left the area, stating that we would not return to the area” (doc.1).From the statement of Coman Nelu, an employee of our company at that time, it results that there was no kind of aggression that day:
“There I saw a boy and a girl. The boy was filming the property with a camera, which he put in his pocket the moment he saw us. I asked him what he was doing there; he told us that he had come for a walk with the girl, to make a kind of album or a wedding photo. I specify that no conflict took place between us then.” “I reiterate and state that, during the event described above, none of the persons was assaulted.”The hysteria provoked by the NGO press around the event pointed to us as responsible for the incident. But even so, it is clearly seen from all the statements that they were the ones who initiated and provoked the incident. Illustrative in this regard is the exchange of messages between the “activist” Sălăşan Luca and Coman Alin. The “dialogue” was conducted through the text messaging of the mobile phones on the evening of 17 May 2015:
Sălăşan Luca: “The nightmare of your life has begun…! I will watch it with pleasure!” – 18:36
Coman Alin: “We will watch each other…” – 19:17
Sălăşan Luca: “I have seen plenty of fools… but insolent ones on top of that are rarer. It is a case that I will “study” to the marrow of the bones!” – 19:31.
When Sălăşan Luca sent the message: “The nightmare of your life has begun…! I will watch it with pleasure!”, he knew very well what he was saying and what he was relying on. Just a week later, he was part of the group of those who descended on Coroieşti, when they provoked us to violence and the attempted murder was committed.
Accomplices in the Fabrication of Evidence
The following day, on 18.05.2015, Gotiu Mihai published an article just as mendacious and tendentious as the previous ones against us on the website romaniacurata.ro: “This morning, at the România Curată address, we received several images from the same area, where timber is being massively cut. Upstream from the area where the logs were brought down there is both a natural park and the Retezat National Park. The two young people who tried to climb up the valley (and who took the photographs) accuse that they were allegedly assaulted by a local councilor and two other people who were with him, being blocked from going further. WE WILL RETURN WITH DETAILS” (art.1). In this article, it can be seen that Goțiu Mihai went further, saying that “upstream there is a natural park, as well as the Retezat National Park.” In reality, the land on which our investments are projected has nothing in common with those parks. Everyone knew from the locals that those logs they photographed belonged to the local joint-ownership associations. Moreover, Dejeu Călin was together with Păvăloiu Dan in exactly the same place, on 27.04.2015, and they filmed the same logs. The investigations proved that the cuttings were legal and that they had no connection to our investments. Returning to the alleged aggression against the two “young activists,” it must be said that there is no evidence to confirm the existence of any act of violence on 17 May 2015. As for the red mark on Sălășan Luca’s neck, it is clearly seen that he produced it himself, after that meeting, by repeated rubbing with the cord around his neck. Not even from his statement does it result that those he met that day caused it to him.
These provocations, threats, and fabrications of evidence were made with the obvious aim of obtaining an incident that would demonstrate that we are violent, as Goțiu Mihai described me:
“The valley is guarded, in mafia style, by the company’s owner and “volunteers,” with clubs and dogs.” In the end, it was demonstrated that I did not exist in this story. About that “visit” I found out half a year later, at the moment when I received a copy of the attempted murder file. That is when I asked Coman Nelu for explanations about the incident, and that is also when Coman Alin showed me the threats he had received on his phone’s messaging.
In the following episodes you will see that this incident was recorded in an official document only after the commission of the attempted murder of 24 May, and it was the subject of criminal case no. 456/P/2015, constructed artificially and retroactively. This judicial farce was to be used excessively and abusively by both the prosecutors and the environmental agitators.
Next episodes
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.