Article by Narcis Drejan – Published on Wednesday, 04 March 2026, 10:34 / Updated on Wednesday, 04 March 2026 10:35
The Keita case is yet another proof that Romania allows absolutely anything in an increasingly suffocating and suffocating traffic, in a country where the driver is completely uneducated and undisciplined. On Keita, the police detained him, but what about Mario Iorgulescu or others?
Romania does not need another road tragedy to understand that the asphalt does not forgive, but people and institutions forget too quickly that every accident is, first of all, a human drama and not a file to be thrown through the bureaucratic drawers of indifference. The fact that the Rapid player hit a woman on the crosswalk, then turned up for training as if nothing had happened, really proves that some people are not afraid of anything.
But they are not afraid because of the permissive system, because of corruption, because of the governors who argue like uneducated people, but when it comes to prevention, the implementation of education, the strengthening of the state, NOBODY gets involved. By the way, did you know that Romania is the absolute leader in deaths on the streets? Bulgaria has solved the problem, although their infrastructure is far below ours.
Kader Keita / PHOTO: Instagram
Haunted by escaped footballers
Looking back, our society remains haunted by cases that raised uncomfortable questions about how justice works when life intersects with notoriety. Cristian Albeanu's name is linked to a fatal accident in the 90s, an episode that left not only a legal sentence, but also a persistent feeling that the compensation promised to victims can sometimes remain suspended between law and reality, fueling the idea that time can dilute not only memory, but also the moral pressure of justice.
The public discussions about Răzvan Lucescu and the 1991 accident brought to the fore how the truth can become a disputed territory between the investigation, statements and social perception, even if the official version established a different configuration of responsibility than the one circulated in the emotional space of public opinion.
The case of Simion Mironaș, sentenced to a suspended sentence after a fatal accident, the victim being a 15-year-old child, remains a landmark in the debate about how heavy the sanction should be when negligence at the wheel turns into death, because many voices felt that the scales of justice did not weigh the tragedy with the same weight as they weighed the pain of the families. Mironaș is no longer with us, but the case caused a stir since then, but the footballer escaped suspension.
Let's not forget Mario Iorgulescu
Currently, public attention is shifting to the accident produced by Kader Keita, involved in a road accident in Bucharest, where the charge of leaving the scene of the accident adds an additional layer of legal and moral gravity, especially in a society where the pedestrian often has to turn crossing the zebra into a daily exercise of vigilance.
In fact, the pedestrian crossing no longer exists, especially in Bucharest, you only cross when there are no cars left, because you risk being picked up by an uneducated driver, who will also tell you that you are wrong. That's how it is with the uneducated! At least, they put Keita in jail, let's hope that an example will be given, instead, the son of the head of the LPF is welcome in Italy.
Mario Iorgulescu, who has become a symbol of the debate about the relationship between notoriety, legal procedures and the perception that some cases can remain in an area of uncertainty for years, fuels the social suspicion that influence or context can change the pace at which justice pronounces its verdict.
Beyond the name, the real problem is not one footballer or another, but a road and social system that still tolerates too much risk. Romania will become safer only through tougher codes written on paper, through their application without exception, through serious traffic education and through the cultivation of a simple civic reflex: the pedestrian crossing is not an obstacle for the driver, but a sacred space of the other's life. It's the pedestrian's right, and you, as an uneducated driver, if you don't understand, you deserve to go to jail.
Until the Romanian street ceases to be a game of urban roulette, every sudden brake near a zebra remains a harsh reminder that civilization is not measured in horsepower, but in respect for human fragility. Can you hear Gino? Can you guys hear it there too? In fact, sleep well, that it leaves your system, even covers you with immoral blankets.
