Romania protests degenerate, turn violent
The situation escalated on Sunday evening at Bucharest’s University Square (Piata Universitatii), where demonstrators threw firecrackers towards law enforcement forces. The traffic along Magheru Boulevard was stopped. One of the protesters was engulfed in fire for a few moments before the flames were put out. The riot police fight back with tear gas. A policeman was wounded. (scroll down for video and photos)
UPDATE: The protest at University Square started peacefully Sunday at noon but became violent after 6-7 p.m. when people broke fences, took to the avenue and some of them threw rocks and pieces of pavement at the riot police, one officer reportedly being hurt. University Square demonstrators broke the barriers set by gendarmes and rushed along the boulevard, in order to occupy the Square. Road traffic was blocked as the incidents broke out in front of the National Theatre in Bucharest.
Some protesters were seen hurling burning torches, stones and other blunt objects. One gendarme suffered head injuries. As demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails, one person caught fire but was apparently saved by the people around.
Social ravage at University Square in Bucharest as Romania entered third day of protests. Photo:mediafax.ro
However the situation is different now because the message has changed and the complaints are mainly related to social and economic problems.
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The action for support of Raed Arafat was initiated on the social network Facebook. It transformed subsequently in nation wide protests against President Traian Basescu, Boc Government and Romanian politicians.
Raed Arafat of Syrian origins is pretty popular in Romania as he has implemented and developed the country’s emergency medical service, called Smurd, in the past 20 years.
Gendarmes engage in stadoff with violent protesters in Bucharest
Video: Romania turmoil: Revolution-like protests turn violent downtown Bucharest
DOWN WITH THIS PSYCHO DICTATOR BASESCU & his orange genocidal party (PDL) !!!
* Tuz’ morții mă-tii cheliosule spurcat de nemernicit ordinar & odios, ce ești !
Simon, apparently the situation is quite harsh there. some media reports hooligans among protesters. true?
True, here situation is explosive !
Hooligans, protesters, ordinary people, we are all are terrified by the Basescu-Boc government. They have no solutions, no perspectives, they have put us in a dangerous dead end, with no way out !
We want free elections, but ScumBăsescu and his ‘Democrat-Communist’ Party (PDL) trying to steal our freedom (by many ways of repression), it’s the most incredible thing for a Member State of the E.U. in 2012 🙁
Please ignore Simon’s comment it is just plain stupid I’m afraid.
Yes, it is true that the situation got out of control when part of the protesters started attacking the gendarmes. It all degenerated in an open conflict on the central thoroughfare in Bucharest that left quite some damage, protestors destroying road signs, public furniture and started open fires in the middle of the street. These were in fact the hundreds of football hooligans media reported about, Oh well, everything is calm now.
aha, it’s clear now. the “thugs” were actually some gangs of fanatic soccer supporters….despite the fact that a “Steaua FC” representative claimed on tv that “fans go on stadiums, not in the streets”:)
Hei Andrei… i think you were in a sofa, eating some shit, and starring at the TV. There were “hoolingans” on the streets, but they are ROMANIAN citezens, who pay for everything, taxes, and all the crap. The city is built on our money, so if we need to destroy it in order for the world to see what is really happening in ROMANIA, so be it. We are fed up, it’s to much. People get killed by the faulty system, and those who kill are rich and nothing, NOTHING is happening to them. So, Andrei, please mind what you are talking about. Fanatic supporters are people first of all, we have protested peacefully for 21 years… and we were invisible that way. It’s time the leaders see the power of the people, to see that we are not stupid, we know they sell the country. This nation will win, the people must fight for their right’s. That’s all for now…
i share your idea that even hooligans are romanian citizens BUT these acts only give the government free way to repress these protests. this weekend should have been a peacefull one. i only hope that these actions of violence will not bring casuelty deaths
it was a general turmoil but fortunately did not turn tragic as (probably) no one died in the incidents. from what i’ve seen on tv, apparently the enforcement forces were not too aggressive against the rioters.
Here you have some videos from Pitesti
Pitesti protests 15 Jan. 2012
Pitesti demonstrations 15 Jan. 2012
As I see, in Pitesti the protest was peaceful and…funny:) That was really a good oportunity to go out and people revealed a much better behaviour than in Bucharest where they set a car on fire.