The dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences at SNSPA, Cristian Pîrvulescu, will be heard on Tuesday at the Prosecutor’s Office, as a witness, in the file opened following the accusations of sexual abuse brought to the sociologist Alfred Bulai. Alfred Bulai was a professor at Political Sciences, being suspended following the investigation of the investigative site Snoop.ro.
According to the representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office of the District Court 1, professor Cristian Pîrvulescu will be questioned by prosecutors from 3:00 p.m. Cristian Pîrvulescu, said on Tuesday that he was “shocked” by what he learned during the discussions with the prosecutors about the case of the sociologist Alfred Bulai, saying that he learned from the investigators that a student was starved in during a practice course.
“I didn’t know that one of our students was hungry during the practice and that she needed medical assistance and other such matters that the prosecutor described to me at the time we had the discussion. There are many things that we did not know about the way in which the practice was carried out. I have to tell you that it is the only internship that I had at the university and for which we cannot find reports at the moment. There was no transfer of duties and archives. We believe that we will be able to recover them all (…) It is a fact. So an ambulance came. Neither I nor the rector had any knowledge”, Cristian Pîrvulescu declared in front of the journalists, upon leaving the Prosecutor’s office. Answering a question, Pîrvulescu stated that the prosecutors’ investigation focuses on what happened in the last two years.
“They were Mr. Bulai’s assistants, who accompanied him during the internships. Some of them answered the Police’s questions a few days or weeks ago. Others don’t. But in general, I think the investigation is focused on what happened in the last two years (…) Always, the experiments took place in the rural area in different corners of the country (…) Practice is an experiment. It took place in different places in the country, in rural areas, where different investigations were carried out. Theoretically, from a sociological point of view, very interesting”, said Pîrvulescu.
Asked if he had learned about such “experiments”, Cristian Pîrvulescu said: “This is what shocked me at the end of the meeting, the discussion. It’s hard for me to tell you now. I found out a lot of things, but little by little maybe you too will have access to the documents, when they will be public.”
Also on Tuesday, the investigators search the SNSPA headquarters and a student dormitory in Bucharest, in the criminal case opened in rem after several female students accused professor Alfred Bulai of sexual abuse. In this file, investigations are being carried out for the crimes of abusive use of the position for sexual purposes and sexual assault, “acts that were allegedly committed by a 61-year-old man (n.r.-Alfred Bulai), teacher of a university in the Capital”, according to the Police.
The investigation was launched after the investigative website Snoop.ro revealed, at the end of July, that sociologist Alfred Bulai, professor, head of the sociology department at SNSPA and a well-known political analyst, asked some female students to undress in front of his.
Alfred Bulai was suspended from all positions at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies, the decision being taken in the University Senate one day after the investigation by Snoop.ro journalists. The management of SNSPA said that there was never a complaint against Alfred Bulai, submitted to the dean’s office or to other forums in the university.