Article by Daniel Grigore – published Tuesday, 05 August 2025 19:55 / Updated Tuesday, August 2025 20:39
The second round of the Romanian Cup started this evening, with the match between CS Lotus Băile Felix and CSM Olimpia Satu Mare. Most duels were scheduled on Wednesday, 5:30 pm, and the last one will take place on Thursday, from the same hour.
The decision announced by FRF after Ion Iliescu's death
FRF announced that Before the parties on Wednesday and Thursday there will be moments of silence in memory of the first president of post-December RomaniaIon Iliescu, died today against the background of health problems.
Is a decision made and in the context in which The government declared August 7 as a national mourning dayin honor of the one who was head of state between 1990 and 1996, then between 2000 and 2004.
Ion Iliescu died out of life
The former leader of the FSN was admitted on June 9 in the Intensive Care of the Emergency Clinical Hospital “Prof. Dr. Agrippa Ionescu”
On August 2, the representatives of the hospital announced that the condition of the former president of Romania was damaged after the progressive installation of multiple organ dysfunctions, with severe respiratory impairment and significantly reduced ventilatory reserve.
In the following days, the Government will communicate the details about the state funerals that will be organized in honor of the first president after 1989.
Ion Iliescu was the head of the state in 3 lines: after the Revolution he was interim president, and in May 1990 elected president with full rights for a short term, for two years.
In 1992 he won a 4-year first term in the first elections held according to the new Constitution, in 1996 he lost before Emil Constantinescu, and in 2000 he returned to the head, defeating Corneliu Vadim Tudor in round 2.
Between 1996 and 2000, later between 2004 and 2008, he was a senator chosen on the PSD lists (PDSR in the first term).
Accused for crimes against humanity
Ion Iliescu was charged in the mining file of June 13-15, 1990, respectively in the Revolution file.
In the first file, recently sent to court, Ion Iliescu, Petre Roman and 6 other defendants are accused of crimes against humanity. Specifically, that “they launched a policy of repression against the civilian population in the Capital, after which 4 people were killed, 2 people were raped, the physical and/or mental integrity of over 1,300 people were injured and over 1,200 people were persecuted.”
The file of the Revolution, with Ion Iliescu among the defendants, was sent by the JCCJ back to the Military Prosecutor's Office in September 2024, 35 years after the facts. And in that file to Iliescu is brought the accusation of crimes against humanity.
Specifically, it would have supported a systematic operation of misleading public opinion between December 22-30, 1989, a manipulation that had “as consequences the generation and amplification of the generalized psychosis of terrorism, psychosis causing numerous generalized fratricidal fires”.
“Thus, 857 deaths occurred, 2,382 injuries of persons, 585 serious freedom deprivations, in violation of the general rules of international law and 409 cases of large suffering,” according to the indictment of military prosecutors.
