Border Police, details in the case of journalist Russia Today expelled from Romania: “It had a prohibition to enter the national territory”

The Border Police announced on Friday that the journalist Chay Bowes of the Russia Today, controlled by the Russian state, was not allowed to enter Romania following a control made on May 1 at Otopeni Airport, which resulted that he had a ban on our country. The man then remained in the airport transit area and purchased the ticket in the direction of Turkey, the authorities say.

According to the Border Police, the journalist, an Irish citizen, had landed on Thursday night in Romania from Dublin.

“On May 1, around 19.00, the border guards at the Henri Coandă Bucharest International Airport checked, on the occasion of the border control carried out on the way to the country, an Irish citizen traveling from the Dublin Directorate. As a result of the checks, the man had no prohibition to enter the frontal. Romania ”, the border police said, in a statement.

According to the quoted source, the man “was informed about the situation and a form regarding the disposed measure and its motive, as well as the legal way of challenging it” was handed.

“The person remained in the transit area and purchased a ticket for a race in the direction of Turkey, taking a few hours later,” says the Border Police.

“The reason underlying the establishment of a restrictive measure of entry into the country against a foreign citizen, is communicated, under the conditions stipulated by Art. And the functioning of the institution, the Romanian Border Police implements the measures to prohibit the entry into the territory of Romania, implemented both on the citizens of the third states and on the citizens of the EU member states, based on their own findings or the request of the competent institutions in the sense of GEO no. Republished, ”says the border police.

The Russia Today (RT) publication announced on Thursday that one of its journalists, Chay Bowes, was detained on Thursday at Henri Coandă International Airport and later expelled in Romania.

“Our correspondent, Chay Bowes, was expelled from Romania and climbed on a plane to Istanbul, outside the European Union,” Margarita Simonian, the chief editor of Russia Today, in a post on the social network X.

Simonian claimed that Bowes came to Romania with the intention of reporting on this year's elections and accused the Romanian authorities of “transforming the country into an authoritarian testing”