During his visit to CNSAS, President Iohannis could see a few high sounding files kept in the institution’s archive.
Two of them belonged to some famous communist torturers, Gheorghe Enoiu and Alexandru Visinescu, as the prosecutors put them on trial for their crimes during communism era.
According to the files, Enoiu was an awesome communist investigator, member of former Securitate communist political police, who was involved in the incrimination process of dissidents and student who were opposing the communist regime in the 50s. He used to excel in violent investigation procedures, based on mental and body torture. The Institute for Communist Crimes Investigation unveiled him in 2007 and asked the court to be put on trial. Yet, Enoiu escaped the judgment, as he died in 2010. CNSAS leadership told President Iohannis that it hardly acquired Enoiu’s file, after a protocol with the Interior Ministry.
As for Alexandru Visinescu, former commander of Ramnicu Sarat Penitentiary, he has fiercely oppressed political prisoners during 1956-1963. He is still alive, almost 90 years old. His trial has started on September 24, 2014. Visinescu has been constantly denying the charges, saying he has just done his job and the prisoners have never been tortured.
The Romanian head of state also saw an archive document regarding the German doctors’ deportation from Romania, precisely how many Germans living in Romania have been deported in the former Soviet Union, and how many of them succeeded in returning home. Iohannis has recently related about his grandparents who had been among the Swabians who were deported 70 years ago from Romania in forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. “After a few years, they returned home aged by the pain. They have never told what they lived in the camp”, Iohannis said.