Vice President of the PNL, after George Simion asked for the protection of the SPP: “The bluff of a hooligan”

Deputy Alexandru Muraru, vice-president of the PNL, accused the AUR leader of being “completely disconnected from reality” when he “requests armored cars and bodyguards paid from public money, just like a shameless nomenclaturist”.

The reaction of the liberal comes in the context in which George Simion requested the protection of the Protection and Guard Service (SPP) for him, his family and the leadership of AUR, citing among other things the vandalism of the party headquarters and the “death threats received”.

“The man who made a career out of violence, scandal and aggression, the same one who strangled, threatened and attacked dozens of Romanian politicians, is now asking the state to provide him protection. A hooligan who behaved like a political intimidator suddenly wants to be treated like a dignitary in danger. This is what hypocrisy looks like, taken to the level of art,” said Alexandru Muraru, on Friday, in a post on Facebook.

Alexandru Muraru claims that he himself “and other fellow parliamentarians were, over time, the target of threats, verbal and physical aggression from AUR sympathizers, led by George Simion himself”, but “none” of them “ever asked for privileges or state protection”.

“Let's remind you: the aggression of Simion from the Romanian Parliament on the former minister Virgil Popescu, the group of more than 20 AUR members and sympathizers who brutally entered the premises of Timișoara City Hall, the young woman raped at the AUR summer school, journalists assaulted and roughed up by AUR members and sympathizers, are just some of the violence promoted by these extremists”, continued the vice-president of the PNL.

“An aberrant request, made nonchalantly”

Alexandru Muraru claims that George Simion's request to obtain protection for himself, his family and his colleagues in the management of AUR is “aberrant, done nonchalantly, as if it were a matter of personal law, not a privilege reserved for state functions”.

“I publicly ask CSAT not to approve this scandalous request. It would be a dangerous precedent for an aggressor, known for violent behavior and constant slip-ups, to receive the protection of the Romanian state. Let's not end up in the absurd situation where the Romanian policemen and officers are put to defend the very man who publicly insulted, pushed and discredited them countless times”, added the liberal.

He said the AUR leader, if he “really feels threatened, is free to hire private security at his own expense.”

“He can appeal to the mercenaries with whom he flirts ideologically, just like his brother of extremist thinking, Călin Georgescu. But he should not claim that Romanian citizens, who pay taxes and fees, finance the protection of a political agitator who has built his entire career on violence and hatred”, Muraru also said, adding that “Romania does not need the grotesque show of a hooligan who poses as a victim and demands privileges of state”.