The Bucharest Court of Appeals’ Prosecutor’s Office Motivates its Appeal

The Bucharest Court of Appeals’ Prosecutor’s Office contends, in a communiqué remitted to the Mediafax agency, that it appealed the sentencing of colonels Tudor Stanica and Mihai Creanga because legal procedures related to the former officers’ actions’ legal framing were not followed. “Since retired colonels Tudor Stanica and Mihai Creanga defense… covered only the framing under discussion (complicity to murder), and not the one they were sentenced for (murder), it was considered they were harmed in their procedural rights.  The Bucharest Court of Appeals – Penal Section 2 sentenced defendants Tudor Stanica and Mihai Creanga, to 22 years in prison, but based on Decree 11/1988, article 2, the conviction was reduced to half, each defendant in the end being given 11 years in prison.

Their arrest is not a priority !

The prosecutors maintain that both for murder as well as complicity to commit murder the punishment is the same, but the true motive for the appeal in the colonels’ case will be provided in the Supreme Court’s sentencing.  The Supreme Court is rushing to take on colonels Tudor Stanica and Mihai Creanga’s appeal, who were found guilty by the previous court of murdering dissident Gheorghe Ursu in 1985.  The Romanian police are seeking the two; a general arrest warrant was issued, since they are hiding.  Immediately after the sentencing of the colonels, police was notified to execute the arrest order.  Although they were seen going to the convicts’ homes, the police denied they received the Court’s papers.  Upon media pressure, police announced a general arrest warrant was issued, adding that the two are hiding together, somewhere in the country, and are waiting for the magistrates to answer their appeal of the arrest warrants. Yet the policemen maintain that the apprehending of Stanica and Creanga are not on their priority list.