Effects of the Recorder documentary. The Judicial Inspection announces that it is conducting checks: “Part of the presented elements were already in our attention”

The Judicial Inspection, an independent structure within the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) that has the role of verifying and controlling the activity and conduct of magistrates, says it is doing checks after the Recorder documentary. “Part of the elements presented in the material have already been brought to our attention, a summary of these activities will be presented in the coming days,” the institution's representatives said on Sunday.

“Taking into account the press material published by recorder.ro, as well as the notification of the CSM departments, the Judicial Inspection carries out checks in accordance with the legal attributions. We make it clear that part of the elements presented in the material have already been brought to our attention, a summary of these activities will be presented in the coming days,” the Judicial Inspection sent, notes News.ro

The section for judges of the Superior Council of the Magistracy (CSM) announces that it has decided to refer the Judicial Inspection to verify the information presented in the documentary “Captured Justice” made by the Recorder.

“In relation to the issues reported publicly in the mass media, the Section for Judges of the Superior Council of the Magistracy decided to refer the Judicial Inspection to carry out checks in relation to the press material broadcast by the Recorder”, the CSM announced on Friday.

Recorder published, on Tuesday evening, the documentary “Captured Justice”, about the state of the Romanian justice system, the phenomenon of statutes of limitations, but also the effects of the centralization of power at the level of “some magistrates who coexist with politicians”.

Since Wednesday evening, protests have taken place in the country every day. Thousands of people protested on Saturday evening in the Capital, in Piața Victoriei, where the demonstrators chanted, among other things, “Resignation, Savonea!”, “Justice, not corruption!” and “You change complete, like socks.”

900 magistrates announced that they stand in solidarity with the professionals who “had the courage to report the problems and pressures in the justice system”.

Recorder announced that on Sunday evening it will publish an interview with judge Raluca Moroșanu, who stood in solidarity with a magistrate who appeared in the documentary “Captured Justice”, at the beginning of the press conference held by the heads of the Bucharest Court of Appeal.

Two camps in the SCM: judges criticize the Recorder documentary, while prosecutors have a completely different position

The section for judges of the SCM argued that the “allegations” in the Recorder investigation are contrary to the assessments made in recent years regarding the justice system and denounced “the amplification of the campaign to destabilize the judicial power by destroying trust in the justice system and trust in people in leadership positions.” At the same time, the Council appealed to society “not to be influenced by isolated positions, in dissonance with the body of judges”.

Later, the Section for Prosecutors of the Superior Council of the Magistracy (CSM) announced that it will take steps to verify the reality of the conclusions of the press material produced by the Recorder regarding the activity of the prosecutors.

The Prosecutors of the Section stated that they have drawn the attention of the Ministers of Justice and politicians several times that “it is necessary to revise some provisions of the laws of justice, some of them in the sense of those captured in the content of the material”.

“The link between possible system problems, integral or sectoral, which must be checked immediately, and the recent changes regarding the status of magistrates, referring here to service pensions, is only a conjunctural one and can only lead to the manipulation of public opinion and to the derailment of the purpose of the Recorder material”, argued the prosecutors.

A judge from the Bucharest Court of Appeal stated, on Thursday, before the press conference organized by the court as a result of the Recorder investigation, that he supports the statements of judge Laurenţiu Beşu – who appears in the press material – claiming the “toxic and tense” situation in the institution.

“I came here to support my colleague Laurenţiu Beşu, everything he said there is true, if he will be contradicted it is a lie. Here, at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, we work very hard, the management does not help us in any way”, said Raluca Moroşanu, judge at the 1st Criminal Section of the Bucharest Court of Appeal.

She complained about the “toxic and tense” situation in the court.