Crin Antonescu, about the drug traffickers: “I would do like in China, I would shoot them on the stadium”
Crin Antonescu, the candidate supported by the PSD, PNL and UDMR in the presidential elections, told Antena 3 that drug traffickers “must be punished with maximum harshness and prevent this scourge, this dehumanization and this death”, and “children who consume to help or have this situation”.
Asked about the case of the 20 -year -old who died this week after a drug overdose, Crin Antonescu said he was “a terrible episode” and that an idea he proposes through his presidential program is the reorganization of the National Anti -Drug Agency (Ana) “according to the American model”.
“Maximum harshness for traffickers, maximum! I honestly tell you, if I could, I know you can't, here I would like China, shoot them on the stadium.
He stated that he does not intend to reintroduce the death penalty.
“I just wanted to give a voice to a feeling that I think all those who lead Romania should have when I see something like this. Think about being your child who agonized there and who died! Think they came to a dehumanization hall that they could attend it! (…) Antonescu.
The presidential candidate believes that drug traffickers “must be punished with maximum harsh”.
“The maximum measures against traffickers must also be accompanied with maximum measures from other areas, from education, assistance areas, from NGOs, which really do good work, are very serious NGOs in this field, to help the victims. Because traffickers must be punished with maximum harshness and prevent this, to spread this flag, which should not be done, Situation or must be recovered after they have arrived, ”said Crin Antonescu.
He wants the reorganization of Ana and “A Task Force Advisory in addition to the Presidential Administration”
Also on Thursday, but earlier, the candidate of the ruling coalition addressed the phenomenon of drugs and in a press conference, in which he expressed his intention to set up “a Task Force Advisior to the Presidential Administration” if he wins the May elections.
“A real coordination is essential between justice, internal, health and education, so that prevention, intervention and recovery will no longer function fragmented. As president I will set up a Task Force Advistenal in addition to the Presidential Administration, a council consisting of specialists, doctors, non-governmental organizations and people from the land, for the long term, for the long-term The state will provide real support for leaving addiction, not stigmatization, and chances of healing, ”said Antonescu, quoted by Agerpres.
He also spoke about the “consolidation of the National Anti -Drug” on the American model.
“I will support the reorganization and consolidation of the National Anti -drug Agency, according to the model in the United States, a specialized structure with clear prerogatives, sufficient resources and international cooperation, capable of acting efficiently, against traffic networks,” said Crin Antonescu in the press conference on Thursday, quoted by News.ro.
Crin Antonescu made these statements in the context in which a 20 -year -old died on Tuesday morning after a metadone overdose. He had used drugs in a live that he made Tiktok the previous evening in the house of another young man, who, according to Antena 3, instigated him to consume forbidden substances. The latter, aged 21, was preventively arrested on Thursday for a period of 30 days.
The boy arrested in the file is Tudor Duma, said “Maru”. He would have been the drug dealer of Vlad Pascu, the author of the deadly accident of 2023, from May 2, and was sentenced in the first instance to 4 years and 3 months in prison for drug trafficking and drug detention, but the decision is not final.
According to DIICOT, in the new file is investigated for committing the offense of providing the home for illicit drug use or tolerating illicit consumption in the home.
