Cristian Tudor Popescu, vehement reaction after the CNSAS announcement regarding the written statement given by Crin Antonescu at Security. “A mess”
The journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu criticized on Tuesday evening, in an intervention on B1 TV the launch of a “news” about Crin Antonescu regarding the declaration given to the Security in relation to a friend, whom he considers without a foundation.
“This F*CK News, which has absolutely no basis, is now launched in the public space and will be used by the televisions that urges Ponta and Simion, as well as by Nicușor Dan's propagandists,” said CTP, quoted by the television site, expressing its disappointment to how the information is manipulated in the public space.
The writer recalled that Nicușor Dan's supporters used the information to attack Crin Antonescu, which he claims will vote in the first round of the presidential elections.
“I was on TV even when 2 supporters I believed serious people, the leader of the right party and the other from the USR, was mayor in Bucharest, they were scared after the” news “given for a few minutes to make him” founder of his colleagues “. What to say,” said CTP
The newspaper brought in question and painful memories from the period before 1989, when the Security had the power to call any citizen to provide information. “Security could call absolutely anyone, not just a teacher or doctor. Any citizen could call him to the Security,” he stressed, reminding his own traumatic experiences.
Officially from CNSAS, explanations about the statement given by Crin Antonescu to Security, not publicly public: no CNSAS has restricted access to that note, but the law does not allow it, at this stage
In his opinion, the statements made right on the B1 TV, according to which Antonescu would have offered an “informative note,” are wrong and reflect a lack of understanding of the terms. “The informative note is something else, it is given on its own initiative, and in the case of Crin Antonescu, he was forced to give his statement,” said Cristian Tudor Popescu.
The newspaper also reminded the episode of the election campaign for the General City Hall of the Municipality of Bucharest, in which, on the PSD chain, a document claiming that the current independent candidate for presidential, Nicușor Dan, collaborated with the Security, which was false.
“Last year, Mr. Nicușor Dan was the target of a similar operation. He threw in the Capital City Hall a so-called document from which it turned out that he poured his colleagues from the Mathematics Olympics, which I quickly disassembled. A mess. Now these gentlemen from the USR, Antonescu a few minutes after that news appeared, without checking anything, to see what appears, ”said Cristian Tudor Popescu.
The journalist appreciated as “normal” Elena Lasconi's reaction in relation to this topic, even though “she now has heavier fighting with Nicușor Dan than with Crin Antonescu … but take advantage of the opportunity”.
Cristian Tudor Popescu accuses CNSAS of media manipulation in the context of elections
Cristian Tudor Popescu criticized the actions of the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (CNSAS), qualifying them as a handling strategy within the election campaign. In a suggestive analogy, CTP described the method practiced by CNSAS as similar to a scenario in which someone repeatedly denies an unspoken accusation, suggesting that, through this tactic, doubts are generated in the public's perception.
“CNSAS applied a manipulation method that I call” NUI NO EC **** “. It creates a repeated denial of a question that has not been asked, leaving the public with some questions and anxiety, ”he explained. In this context, Popescu stressed that the information presented by CNSAS regarding Crin Antonescu should not have appeared, describing them as a” non-document “that does not bring anything new or relevant.
Popescu pointed out that the CNSAS Declaration, which was issued in 2020, was brought back today and used in the election campaign without having a proper justification. Criticizing the approach, he said: “It is not a complaint made by someone. The ones at CNSAS know these things very well, they are a job.”
Crin Antonescu was not a security collaborator, CNSAS announced
The candidate of the coalition, Crin Antonescu, said on Tuesday that he had no relationship with the former Security as a pursuit and asked for his statement from the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (CNSAS) to be made public.
He explained that he gave a statement to the former Security, as a pursuit, in the case of a friend, a teacher, who left abroad in the 1980s.
CNSAS said that in the case of Crin Antonescu, the quality of a communist security collaborator cannot be withheld.
Ștefan Costache, the man for whom Antonescu was summoned to the Security managed to escape from communist Romania. He told Antena 3 that the current candidate for the presidency did not betray him.
