Criminal prosecution reinitiated in the case of dissident Ursu

Military prosecutors from the Supreme Court began the prosecution in the case regarding the death of the dissident Gheorghe Ursu, for crimes against humanity, related to the repression actions to which he was subjected during the communist regime.

Military prosecutors will hear several persons in this case, reads a release quoted by Mediafax.

The reopening of the prosecution in the files on Gheorghe Ursu’s death was confirmed on November 12, 2014, by the Military Court of Appeal Bucharest, which found the legality and the validity of this measure, after the Supreme Court invalidated the solutions of not indicting someone in this case.

Gheorghe Ursu’s son, Andrei Ursu, has been in hunger strike for 17 days in October and November 2014, protesting against the fact that his father’s file wasn’t reopened and that the former Securitate officer who coordinated the investigation that targeted him was not being indicted.

So far, three people were sentenced for the death of Gheorghe Ursu : Marian Clit?, former cellmate of Gheorghe Ursu, Tudor St?nic?, former Chief of Criminal Investigations’ Direction, and Mihail Creang?, former head of the Capital’s Mili?ia Arrest.

Gheorghe Ursu died in the custody of Capital’s Mili?ia, in 1985, having been systematically beaten by the investigators and by his cellmates. On July 1, 2014, he would have turned 88 years old.

Andrei Ursu presented the statements of his father’s cellmates, testimonies from Gheorghe Ursu’s cell guards, medical documents from Jilava penitentiary, as well as the statements of several doctors from Jilava, including the doctor who operated Gheorghe Ursu, which show “very clear” that the injuries that caused the death of Gheorghe Ursu were made during his interrogation with Securitatea Major Marin Pârvulescu.