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“Give the goods and the money, if you don't cut it!” » The former Romanian junior international, generational colleague of Nicolae Stanciu, CONDEMNED after assaulting an ethnobotanical dealer

Article by Maria Olteanu – Published on Sunday, 07 December 2025, 12:21 / Updated on Sunday, 07 December 2025 12:31

The former junior international Amet Enghin (33 years old), participating in the European Championship with the Romanian U19 national team in 2011, was sentenced to two years of suspended prison after assaulting an ethnobotanical dealer.

He was sentenced for aggravated robbery after attacking a drug dealer who refused to send him the goods he had already paid for. The court's decision, announced on December 3, 2025, is final, according to focuspress.ro.

According to the source cited above, the injured person notified the competent authorities and filed a complaint after on the evening of January 16, 2025, while moving from Obor square to 1 Decembrie 1918 boulevard, she was accosted in a gang by two unknown persons who acted violently and stole a Xiaomi MI 10T PRO mobile phone and the sum of 580 lei, the value of the damage being approximately 1,500 leii. One of the aggressors was Amet Enghin, supported by an accomplice.

Amet Enghin, promising player in the junior teams

Amet Enghin was one of Romania's promising players, participating in Euro U19 in 2011, in the team of the then coach Lucian Burchel. The Constantinian was part of the generation of the current captain of the first national team, Nicolae Stanciu.

Despite his talent, he was unable to perform at a level higher than League 2, the peak of his career being at Farul Constanța and at Juventus Bucharest. Then came the decline, reaching League 4, at CS Medgidia, in the 2017-2018 season.

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Enghin admitted his act: “I was in withdrawal”

Following the incidents that happened at the beginning of 2025, the former U19 international admitted before the court the committed gesture, which he claimed was an attempt to recover a damage of 200 lei. He had paid the said amount to the dealer to receive drugs, but the ordered goods were never brought to him. The two had been “collaborating” for about 3-4 months.

In front of the court, the former international admitted the gesture, explaining that “he was in withdrawal” at those moments, when he pushed his victim and helped to immobilize her, so that he could steal the phone and the said amount, according to golazo.ro.

“Calling him on the phone, he chased him and refused to sell him any more goods, saying that he was the Police's swindle”, stated the reasoning of the Constanța Court of Appeal, the previously cited source also said.

The event with Enghin, told by a witness

After he took out a sum of money to hand to “B.”, in order to procure ethnobotanicals from him, one of the two put his hand in his throat and threatened him, repeating many times, to give him everything “he has on him”, otherwise, stick the knife in him. (“Give the goods and the money, give the goods and the money, if you don't cut”).

During this time, Eghin “slashed” him in the back, more precisely kicked “B.” in the area of ​​the ankles, who, at one point, fell to the ground. He immobilized him with both hands, one hand held the injured person's neck, and the other held him in the chest area, preventing him from getting up from the ground, and the other punched him three times in the chest area.

– Focus Press

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