“Beat a man with disabilities … I hope these bastards will make a lot.” The case of the bolt driver showing how sick Romania is
From the street violence to the trusted crisis in the court, the case brings to the surface a complete picture of Romania today: where aggression, lack of empathy and distrust of authorities become norms of life.
The case of the bolt driver assaulted by the passengers revealed, on Reddit, not only a moral revolt, but also a social x -ray. The comments no longer concern the punctual incident, but they discuss the foundations of the Romanian society: from education and justice, to emigration and the crisis of values.
The revolt toward the lack of empathy
„Să bați un om cu handicap… sper să facă multă multă pușcărie acești nenorociți”, He writes one of the users, summarizing the dominant feeling. Another completes: “This society seems to be in a quest to show everything that is worse, ugly and infected in it. All Neanderthalians, validated by the golden voices, justify the Grobiania.”
But the comments go further from the anger for the moment. They suggest a general degradation of the rules of coexistence: violence is no longer an accident, but a symptom. The fact that a trivial service, for example, a bolt race, becomes aggression ground shows how public space is contaminated by tribalism and suspicion.
“What does the driver do outside the ride-sharing do? I call him to take me from point A to point B, not to judge him”, notes an indignant user.
Justice and Police: Between the procedure and the perception of complicity
A consistent string of comments criticizes the police reaction. “I come, I see the beaten man and he also tests him for alcohol. Javre hal”writes someone. The replica of another: “The law is how it is … it must respect the procedure, otherwise any lawyer challenges the file in court.”
But in the subtext the same dilemma appears: between the letter of the law and the human spirit, the Romanians feel a goal. Some of the commentators consider normal testing normal, as an additional proof of innocence. Others see it as an insult added to the victim.
Many voices express their total distrust in justice: “He will escape quietly without anything, because we have a country led by incompetent.”
Another user goes on: “You live in Romania, brother, do you think that physical aggression is punished? Do we have criminals who do not make a day of prison and do you think they will be something?” Somehow, violence does not shock itself, but confirms the negative expectations about the system.
Radicalization of public discourse
Some of the comments on the forum demand extreme punishments: from deportations “directly to Singapore” for others to deal with aggressors, to beats “with paru” or even “executions on stadiums”. It is a form of Catharsis online, but also a symptom of public language radicalization. The lack of confidence in the state produces punitive reactions, inspired by other cultures or authoritarian regimes.
Among the angry reactions there is the bitter confession of a user: “I feel good in Romania, I earn decent, but I have a two -year -old child and I don't want to grow up here. I will go to Germany, although I like it here. ” This personal decision, repeated on a large scale, becomes the explanation for the continuous migration of the educated and productive middle class.
A tribalized society
The incident brings to the fore the deep social divisions: between those who demand medieval punishments and those who defend the legal procedure, between those who choose to leave and those who “immunized to the grobianis”, between the empathy towards the victims and the suspicion towards their “story”.
Behind all the reactions is the same unspeakable question: can Romania can restore its social tissue broken by violence, distrust and lack of solidarity?
Aggression
We recall that a 51 -year -old man from Timisoara, a driver of an alternative transport platform, was attacked on Thursday night by one of his clients. The passenger believed drunk because of the speech problems he noticed to the driver and wanted to apply a correction.
The incident spent on Calea Aradului after a discussion between the driver and the two clients in the car. Police officers say that they the two passengers would have addressed the driver's insult, and when he stopped the car, one of the passengers would have physically assaulted him. The victim says he also received a blow. Even during aggression, the driver continued to explain that he has a disability and deficiencies of speech and balance.
Upon arrival of the police, the beaten driver was tested with the ethyl test, the result being negative.
