tear gas

Several students from the Dimitrie Leonida Technical College in Bucharest arrived at the hospital on Tuesday, after a colleague of theirs sprayed an irritant spray, proved to be tear gas. The Bucharest-Ilfov Inspectorate for Emergency…

16 gendarmes, including the former leadership of the Romanian Gendarmerie (riot police), were sent to court in the "August 10" case, 5 years after the violence of the Diaspora protest on August 10, 2018. More than 300 participants in the…

Declic community says that the EU, NATO and UN leaders attending a meeting in Bucharest these days have received over 4,200 complaints filed by Romanians against gendarmes due to their violent intervention against peaceful protesters during…

The report on the Romanian Gendarmerie’s violent intervention against the protesters at the Diaspora rally on August 10 has reached the United Nations (UN). The document is analysed by the UN experts after over 81,000 people have asked for…

The Prosecutor’s Office upon the District 1 Court is extending the investigation in the case of violence against the riot police (the Gendarmerie) during the Diaspora rally on August 10. Prosecutors say that 62 gendarmes have been attacked…

795 criminal complaints have been filed at the Military Prosecutor’s Office so far, related to the violent intervention of the gendarmes against protesters. Over 450 people needed medical aid, with many of them fainting because of the tear…

The ammunition and weapons used during the protest in Victoriei Square on August 10 are not lethal, petty officer  Alexandru Dinica, master sergeant at the Special Brigade of the Romanian Gendarmerie, said on Monday during a drill with the…

PNL Chairman, Ludovic Orban (photo 1), has reacted to the letter sent by PM Viorica Dancila to the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, by saying she lies in a hallucinating way and that the letter fundamentally affects…

The Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), has issued a press release, saying the substances used during the gendarmes’ intervention in Victoriei Square on August 10 are according to the international standards. The head of the…

First-prosecutor of the Military Prosecutor’s Office upon Bucharest Military Tribunal, Ionel Corbu, who investigates the file of the Diaspora rally’s violence, has said on Wednesday that they had received no information about the tear gas…