Tag Archives: tragedy

A 40-year-old Romanian parachutist has lost his life tragically in the Italian Alps after a failed jump. The cause of the unfortunate incident was, according to witnesses, the parachute, which did not open at all during the jump, causing his ...

President Klaus Iohannis has laid a wreath of flowers at the Colectiv Club on Tuesday morning, in the memory of the victims of the deadly fire in 2015. Today three years are marked from the tragedy that claimed 65 lives ...

Defence minister Mihai Fifor has announced on Friday that the Romanian air space is currently defended only the British aircraft after MiG 21 Lancers had been grounded following the tragedy last week a Romanian MIG 21 Lancer had crashed and the ...

Amid commemoration of two years since the Colectiv fire, ruling Social Democrat Party leaders take controversial stances. First, PSD chairman Liviu Dragnea said on Monday that he had asked PM Tudose to extend the state financing for the treatments of ...

Over 400 clubs and discos in Romania have serious fire safety and security problems, one year after the deadly fire at Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, which claimed 64 lives and left 150 injured. Firefighter inspectors from the General Inspectorate for ...

Romania prepares to commemorate probably the largest and most tragic collective accident in the past 26 years: the Colectiv tragedy, when 64 people died in a fire occurred on the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest on October 30. A photo exhibition ...

District 4 Court in Bucharest rejected again Cristian Popescu Piedone’s candidature for the District 4 city hall. The ruling is not final, with the former mayor being allowed to challenge in within 24 hours. The electoral bureau accepted Piedone’s running ...

Cristian Popescu Piedone on Wednesday informed on Facebook that he had filed his candidature to run for the District 4 Bucharest City Hall, although he had announced that he stepped aside following the Colectiv tragedy. He is criminally prosecuted in ...

The relatives of the Colectiv fire’s victims, as well as the survivors of the deadly blaze set up an association aiming to file criminal complaints against former Health Minister Nicolae Bănicioiu, against secretary of state Raed Arafat and against the ...

On the evening of the tragedy occurred on October 30, 2015 the youngsters at Colectiv nightclub had only 153 seconds to get out and save themselves, reads the report issued by the Institute of Mining Security and Anti-explosion Protection, which ...