Vasile Bănescu, a message with a jerk after the death of Ion Iliescu: “God forgives, we can forgive. But not instead of others”


Vasile Bănescu, photo: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
Vasile Bănescu, a member of the National Audiovisual Council (CNA), sent a message on Facebook on Tuesday in which he did not mention the death of former President Ion Iliescu, but in which he described August 5 as “a day of memorial revision of the first years` 90 “.
“God forgives, we can forgive. But not instead of others,” wrote Vasile Bănescu, a former spokesman for the Romanian Patriarchate.
Ion Iliescu, who died on Tuesday, August 5, had been charged for crimes against humanity both in the December 1989 Revolution file and in the 1990 mining file.
The file of the Revolution and the Mining file, two of the most controversial species in the recent history of Romania, had a sinuous route in court: they were closed and reopened by prosecutors, sent to court and then returned to the Prosecutor's Office for the restoration of the investigations repeatedly.
In April, the General Prosecutor's Office announced that the mining file was sent to court again. The one of the revolution was last returned to the Prosecutor's Office last year. Prosecutors were obliged to restore the indictment.
The first head of state in Romanian post -December, at the age of 95, at the age of 95, at the SRI Hospital “Agrippa Ionescu”, where he was admitted for almost two months. Iliescu will be buried on Thursday, August 7, when it is a national mourning day. The coffin will be deposited on Wednesday morning at the Cotroceni Palace. Ion Iliescu's burial ceremony will only take place in the presence of family and close persons.




