30 unpublished images with George Simion, the candidate who is a big favorite in the 1st presidential round: scandals, controversies, tendentious messages
George Simion, the right-wing candidate that the surveys give without exception in the second round of the presidential elections, built his career for future politician on the stadiums in Romania, the place where he legitimized his activist vocation. From adolescence, Simion has made an objective of promoting unionist messages, obstinantly, at the national matches, then clung to any social turmoil to make her voice heard. The strategy also paid off to Simion on the Bucharest civic scene, and then the national one. Gazeta publishes for the first time images from the past of George Simion, the rebellious lawn of lawn, a professional protest, arrived in the pole-postion to access the second round of the presidents.
For more than 10 years in the first line at the matches of the national team, from Andorra to Vella to Estonia and from Sofia to Belgrade, George Simion alternated the presence on the stadiums, where he posed in a fierce challenge of the Sandu and Burleanu regimes, with the organization of protests in Bucharest: Anti-Iililescu, Pro-Union or Solidarity for Road.
Simion thus acquired popularity from two chains: first from the heterogeneous world of stadiums, then from the civic, street area, the place where the dissatisfied voices often join the same cause.
Simion, endless from the scandals on the stadiums. It was a voice before going with candles to Ion Iliescu
But its appearance in the light of the reflectors took place, as sometimes the televisions or analysts claim, when it went with candles at Ion Iliescu's home, in 2009.
Aprig contestant of the former president of Romania, Simion was already an ordinary presence in the radical subcultures on the country's stadiums. Since 2003, since he participated in the founding of such an entity, Simion has been good for years in the center of tense events on the stadiums, while his popularity was growing.
His subsequent trajectory – unprecedented for a stadium supporter – was different from today's gallery leaders, present in “phenomenon” and after two, three decades of activity. Consecrated in the UltraS world, Simion “broke” it with the lawns when his political career became a certainty.
From a convinced apolitical, a militant for the Union, Roşia Montană and self-proclaimed anti-system, the ultra George Simion became passionate about the power games in Romania And he set up his own political formation, gold, which he runs today, after years he had been the director of “Action 2012”, a Unionist Nionist established in 2011. In 2020, when the alliance for the union of Romanians produced a shocking result in the then parliamentary elections, Simion was already out of the stadium.
Freshly elected deputy, Simion had replaced the fumigans and the behavior of lawns with the fumigans in the electoral speeches, a transformation without which he could not become the presidential.
Simion, today a suitor to the highest position in the state, was by no means a career diplomat, and his past in the world of stadiums abounds with controversial appearances.
Defalcat, the history of the candidate gold reveals little episodes at all publicized, to which the public opinion has not had access so far.
The Sports Gazette has come into the possession of several archive images with Simion, in various hypostases over time at the parties of the national team. Various appearances that have aroused rumors at that time, especially the altercations with law enforcement, are highlighted.
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Simion NA devoid of the famous Bulgaria – Romania since 2007, a pomin match, sprinkled with violent incidents in the stands. The Romanian supporters made a scandal on the “Vasil Levski” stadium in Sofia, lit other priotechnical materials, all culminating with a force intervention of the Bulgarian gendarmes, who used the sticks to calm the Romanians. At that move, a Romanian supporter was arrested by the Bulgarian authorities.
George Simion, 21 years old at that time, appears first of all events.
Over the years, Simion was present in another proportions altercation, spent in 2012, at the Romanian friend with Uruguay, on the National Arena. Then, Simion and the lawn colleagues protested in relation to Roşia Montană Gold Corporation, in a time when the subject was hot on the public agenda. The BGS company intervened in force in the lawn, George Simion being then in the “core” of tense events.
In 2011, when the national team faced Bosnia in Giulești, George Simion was photographed next to a racist message displayed by the Romanian ultra-positioned at the second stand. They just whispered an offensive banner, Translated from Bosnian to Romanian as: “Gypsies shout the Gypsies”. It was a way by which Romanian supporters were trying to attack the Bosnians. Simion was at a stick of the cloth.
During the same match, the Romanian supporters had also displayed a support message for Ratko Mladic, the former Serbian military leader accused of war crimes, responsible for the Srebrenica massacre, after which over 8,000 Muslim Bosnians lost their lives. “Free Mladic”, was the message on the banner of Romanians, on the day the Hague Court began the trial of the former commander of the Republic of Srpska.
In the years in which he was active on the stadiums, Simion was all the time in a leader, a leader that the disciples followed blindly and propagated his actions. Before a match with France, from the preliminaries CM 2010Simion was intercepted by the gendarmes while trying to introduce a banner in the stadium. It was over with screams, hugs and a whole -fledged scandal.
Involved in various unionist actions, Simion was also surprised at matches played over Prut, when his prohibition in the Republic of Moldova was not yet well regulated. On October 9, 2015, he was present in Chisinau (photo below, encircled) for the Republic of Moldova – Russia match, score 1-2, from the Euro 2016 preliminaries. Today, Simion can no longer enter Moldova, the current prohibition is in force until 2028.
Simion, who during that period was pressing with the former President Nicolae Timofti to grant Moldovan citizenship, watched the match from one of the lawns, having a scarf in the colors of the National Prut. On May 13, 2015, Simion had been expelled from Moldova, the decision being erected on September 18, in the same year. A few months after his presence on the “Zimbru” stadium, more precisely in January 2016, Simion was declared again the non-grated person, being applied a new prohibition to enter the Republic of Moldova.
Gradually, Simion's ties with the old “companions” in the lawn have died out, As his involvement on the political scene became more and more obvious.
The relationships have cooled over the years, and the ultras have reached the point of challenging Simion and to dismantle it, dissatisfied that the former activist became attracted by the political games in Romania.
“He shouted with us that he is against the political class and that all the parties are garbage, now he stays with them, in their world, you are hard to differentiate him from others. For us, he is disappointment as he has evolved in these years,” I say voices from the phenomenon, familiar with Simion's transformation.
For four years I haven't been going to matches. This group (no – “united under the tricolor”) is apolitical, have their way, have displayed messages that are historically true.
I have no connection with the “unite under tricolor” group. I no longer keep in touch with supporters in this group. I apologize for them that they are associated with a political party.
– George Simion, after the 2023 incidents from Romania – Kosovo
“I participated in the founding of several groups of supporters at the level of the national team”
Last fall, Simion was invited to the show “Ovidiu's friends”, where he approached a multitude of topics. Then, the politician acknowledged that, in his activity on the stadiums, he often came into conflict with law enforcement.
“I participated in the founding of several groups of supporters at the level of the national team. I consider the stadium a reflection of the society. I learned a lot of the world of football. From geography, before I do geography to school.
After a national match, Romania – Bosnia, I was taken by the gendarmes, cursed, put to the ground: “Simions, beep, beep, bip, let us come home over you with the clan of the athletes! “Sure, it's a particular case.
Most of the gendarmes in Romania believe that they are respectable people, I know many, they helped us in the charitable actions we have taken. But in particular, those gendarmes had connections or pretended they had connections with the athletes clan, ”said Simion.
Simion is a co -founder of the main formations that support the national team of Romania, “Honor et Patria” and “Unite under Tricolor” (UST).
I go to Romania's football matches. They are the only parties I watched in an organized form. In 2002 I was in Bănie and I bind a big friendship to the supporters there, but also to the Banat. I know them, they are true people. I went to Romania – Bosnia, but I also went to Craiova matches. I caught a single Craiova, which is one. I was when the financier was Dinel Staicu. In Bănie, a football match was really felt. The Oltenian supporters had a beautiful message: “Craiova is not discussed, he loves!”
– George Simion, in 2021
