Miners’ riot file: Emil Cico Dumitrescu indicted for crimes against humanity. Prosecution request also for Petre Roman, Victor Stanculescu, Gelu Voican Voiculescu and Miron Cozma

Emil Cico Dumitrescu has been indicted in the miners’ riot file for crimes against humanity. Dumitrescu told the press while leaving the Prosecutor’s Office upon the Supreme Court that he has been informed he is suspect in the file.
He said while leaving that “those who gave orders should be held responsible” and stressed that he had no connection with the decisions taken in June 1990 by Ion Iliescu, adding: “He was at Cotroceni, I was at the headquarters.”
‘Cico’ Dumitrescu, former Head of Culture, Media and Sport Department with the Ministry of Interior, had said before entering to the premises of the Prosecutor’s Office that he has no involvement in this case.
Emil Cico Dumitrescu was tried and definitively acquitted on February 13, 2013 for corruption deeds by the Supreme Court in the case of SRI General Ovidiu Soare and of the SRI Colonel Gheorghe Dumitrache, both sentenced to suspended sentences for influence peddling. Cico Dumitrescu, former state adviser with the Presidential Administration, was accused of influence peddling on the promotion of Ovidiu Soare’s father.
Retired Admiral Emil ‘Cico’ Dumitrescu and Cazimir Ionescu, former Vice President of CPUN, were summoned on Thursday morning to the Prosecutor General to be heard in the miners’ riot file.

At the same time, also on Thursday, the Prosecutor General of the Supreme Court asked the Romania’s President for the initiation of the prosecution procedures in the case of former premier Petre Roman, former Defense minister Victor Athanasie Stanculescu and Gelu Voican Voiculescu, ex-deputy premier responsible for the intelligence services’ control back in 1990. They are aall targeted for crimes against humanity in the 1990 miners’ riot file.

Miners’ former leader Miron Cozma has been also indicted on Thursday in the miners’ riot file, after being heard on Thursday and informed of being suspect.

“For the moment the crime (of which I am accused – our note) is according to (art.) 439, as all others, but according to the letter ‘g’ as I understood, i.e. body injuries, invented issues (…). This is not about crimes against humanity,” said Cozma upon leaving the premises.

He said miners came to Bucharest led by the authorities. “They came headed by the authorities led by Ion Iliescu, Petre Roman, Gelu Voican Voiculescu and colonels with the services who were there even in June ‘90, and of course there were the Deputy Minister Burlec from Aninoasa mine, Nicholas Camarasescu, the man from Securitate,” Cozma said.

In his view, the prosecutors have acted correctly, but he will submit further evidence in the file sent to the ECHR, as the injured party.

The Prosecutor’s Office announced on Wednesday the start of criminal prosecution in the miners’ riot file against several persons (among them former president Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity, and for the violent repression of the demonstration in University Square on June 13-15, 1990 resulted in the death of four people and injuring another three.
Also indicted in this file is the former Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) head Virgil Magureanu, who also arrived at the Prosecutor’s Office upon the Supreme Court Wednesday morning. Later in the day he was charged in the same file as suspect, also for crimes against humanity.
The Supreme Court confirmed on March 9 the decision of the Prosecutors’ Office to reopen the prosecution in the miners’ riot file for June 13-15, 1990. The investigation focuses on the circumstances in which several people were injured during the events that took place in Bucharest.