Understanding at SNSPA on “Pieleanu case”. The University does not publicly comment on the SNOOOP journalists' disclosures
SNSPA. Photo: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
At the level of the leadership of the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA), the decision was made that the University should not have any public reaction regarding the disclosures of the journalists from Snoop About Marius Pieleanu, a teacher at SNSPA, sources from the institution told HotNews.
According to the quoted sources, SNSPA decided on Tuesday morning not to have any reaction regarding the investigation of the journalists from Snoop.
Hotnews tried throughout the day on Tuesday to get an official reaction from SNSPA representatives. The rector of the university, Remus Pricopie, Propectora Ligia Deca (former Minister of Education, in office when Snoop wrote about the accusations of abuse of another teacher from SNSPA, Alfred Bulai) and the chairman of the Ethics Commission, Ion Stavre, did not respond to the newsroom calls.
Reactions from Premier and Minister of Education
The Minister of Education, Daniel David, said on Monday, in a response to Hotnews, that the ministry supports the principle of “zero tolerance to any form of harassment in the university environment”, following the investigation published by the editorial of Snoop, which documents serious accusations of sexual abuses against the sociologist Marius Pieleanu, professor at SNSPA.
“I condemn any kind of facts like this,” said Ilie Bolojan on Tuesday, in a press conference.
Bolojan's reaction after 4 women testified with name and surname in connection with the sexual abuse of Professor Marius Pieleanu / What he thinks will do the faculty where the teacher resumed his courses.
Snoop disclosures about Marius Pieleanu
The SNOOOOop's investigation site published the result of a few months documentation on Tuesday, which discussed with 40 people, teachers, current and former students from SNSPA and the University of Bucharest, the past collaborators of the sociologist and professor of Marius Pieleanu.
Of the women who accuse Marius Pieleanu of abuse or inappropriate behavior and who discussed with the journalist Snoop Ioana Moldovan, four assumed with first name and name, two wanted to give only the first name, and three opted for pseudonym. They tell scenes of sexual abuse, categorically denied by Marius Pieleanu.
The new disclosures come after the SNSPA ethics committee has closed the cases of other testimonies, and Professor Marius Pieleanu has resumed his courses in SNSPA this spring.
Snoop investigation can be read here.
