Cruel verdict at the top of the judiciary: “Romania is closer to criminals' paradise than to the rule of law”
“Romania has come closer to being a paradise for criminals than a state of law”, warns Claudiu Sandu, former vice-president of the CSM. It raises the alarm over how the current legislation is being applied and calls for a “responsible and stern” attitude from magistrates to stop the degradation of the judiciary.
The former vice-president of the CSM, Claudiu Sandu, emphasized in a post on Facebook, entitled “criminals' paradise”, the importance of the legislation, as well as its implementation. His clarifications come in the context of the case of the Turkish prisoner Atas Abdullah, who did not return from prison leave, as well as the case of the recent crime in which several minors are involved.
“A criminal gets permission and flees the country. How can a criminal get the right to get out of prison? It is written in the law. You can sit on the terrace and at the next table is a criminal quietly drinking his coffee. Now we find justifications. The law needs to be changed, some say. Let's get bracelets, say others. Until a decision is made, people forget. It's always someone else's fault. No one says that the laws are beyond criticism. That it favors criminals. How no one says that many magistrates are filled with pity when they have to send a criminal to prison“, writes the former vice-president of the CSM.
He is of the opinion that the legislative amendments have destroyed any coherence in the current legislation, being of the opinion that the necessity of the amendments comes against the background of other existing problems in the justice system:
“We want to criminalize femicide. What about the current law? Isn't 30 years in prison enough? We don't really see such punishments, but if we did see them, wouldn't it be enough? Wouldn't it be better that, instead of making a public spectacle, we find some responsible magistrates who actually pronounce such punishments? We have changed many laws in recent years claiming to modernize them. In fact, we have destroyed any coherence in the criminal legislation.
The preliminary chamber was a revolutionary idea. It turns out to be a procedural disaster. The law of tax evasion, praised by all the heavyweights of justice, is a catastrophe. We have horrified the Union with the level of VAT fraud. Solve the ANAF. Sure. By raising taxes. We abolished juvenile penalties. Now children are killing other children. How is it that, although we have adopted modern laws, misfortunes come one after another? Is it only the lack of education that is to blame? Is it the access to social networks that is to blame? Are we so easily fooled and manipulated? In reality, we have forgotten to be responsible. We forgot that laws must be consistent and specialists must be consulted for the effects of these laws. We have forgotten that magistrates must be responsible and stern and enforce the law by force if necessary. We embrace criminals and consider them victims”he says.
