The first cinema in the country where the Recorder documentary “Captured Justice” is playing

The documentary about the judicial situation that Recorder published this week will be screened at the ARTA Cinema in Cluj-Napoca on Thursday, December 18, and will be followed by a discussion with a lecture. university Dr. Andreea Chiș, former judge and member of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM), according to the announcement made by the cinema.

In the description of the event promoted on Facebook, Cinema ARTA representatives describe the investigation carried out by Recorder as “the documentary that brought tens of thousands of Romanians to the streets”, a reference to the four consecutive days of protests that have taken place up to this point.

The screening of the documentary will take place at 5:30 p.m., and the discussion with Andreea Chiș will begin at 7:30 p.m., stated Cinema ARTA representatives.

Recorder published an investigation on Tuesday evening 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”.

In the Recorder documentary, the military prosecutor Liviu Lascu, Crin Bologa, the former chief prosecutor of the DNA between the periods of Laura Codruța Kovesi and Marius Voineag, but also a prosecutor from the DNA and a judge from the Court of Appeal, who spoke anonymously, were interviewed.

The Recorder's investigation highlighted concrete cases in which defendants politically connected or very powerful in terms of business, such as Marian Vanghelie, Cristian Burci or Puiu Popoviciu, benefited from trials extended until the statute of limitations.

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.”