The Prosecutor’s Office Motives in the "Ursu” Case
The prosecutors contend that the former militiamen had their “procedural rights disregarded”
* The “Popular Action” and Horia Roman Patapievici strongly criticize the prosecutors’ decision to turn themselves into Tudor Stanica and Mihail Creanga’s defenders 
* The Prosecutors try to reduce Stanica and Creanga’s sentences
* Ursu’s henchmen hold key posts in the Romanian magistrature
* Patapievici: "The State instituitions make common front around the criminals”

The lifebelt thrown to the killers of the former dissident by the General Prosecutor’s Office in the Supreme Court trial is considered a judicial anomaly, an action that does not show well for Justice in Romania. On the contrary.  The Popular Action considered that the “prosecutors of the Bucharest Court of Appeals’ Prosecutor’s Office committed "a shameful act for the Romanian magistrature” through appealing in the defendants’ favor. 

The appeal’s motivation 

Parchetul contended yesterday that the appeal was motivated by the change in the charge’s legal framing… 

The Prosecutors try to reduce Stanica and Creanga’s sentences

The Prosecutors asked the Supreme Court to reduce the sentences for colonel  Tudor Stanica, former chief of Militia’s Penal Investigation Division, and colonel Mihai Creanga, former commander of the Militia’s prison, considering that the sentencing was “too harsh”. 
"Through a courageous sentencing of a Bucharest Court of Appeals judge, the defendents were convicted to 22 years (halved by a Ceausesu decree) for first degree murder against dissident Gheorghe Ursu” says the Popular Action.  But to date, the sentence of July 14 was not executed, under the pretext that “the two cannot be found.", The Popular Action considers that instead of supporting the correct decision of judge Podar, and help arresting the convicts, the Prosecutor’s office “tries to help the out, through a shameful appeal… ".

Ursu’s henchmen hold key posts in the Romanian magistrature

… In the "Ursu" dossier were involved magistrates who now hold key posts, like Ilie Piciorus, chief of the inspector-prosecutors in Joita Tanase’s General Prosecutor’s office, and member in the Supreme Council of the Magistrature (CSM). Piciorus is one and the same prosecutor who arrested and investigated Gheorghe Ursu and sent him to trial on a false accusation made up by Ceausesu’s Securitate. Alexandru Tuculeanu, also recent member in CSM, has old, communist-era links to the "Ursu" case. "The Popular Action affirms that a significant number of those who committed grave abuses  during the communist dictatorship were recently brought back into the judicial structures, including some who had been involved in the repression of dissidents before 1989.  The Prosecutor’s Office attempt to save the two convicts in the Ursu case prove the old communist and Securitate structures control the Romanian magistrature” the communique shows.

Patapievici: "The State instituitions make common front around the criminals” 

The helping shoulder given by the Prosecutor’s Office to the criminals – an unprecedented shield among the high-profile cases, when the prosecutors usually follow the same line from beginning to end – is regarded by Horia Roman Patapievici (a member in the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives – CNSAS) as  a blessing for the former communist torturers.
Considered by the RADOR agency as “one of the most knowledgeable of the machine that eliminated Gheorghe Ursu”,  Horia Roman Patapievici declared: "I was profoundly appaled, infuriated. We are talking about two criminals,  Stanica and Creanga. These people killed in cold blood for the Communist Party, a man whe did not agree with the Party.  These people had a formidable career after the Revolution. Stanica was vicepresident for Credit Bank, which he bankrupted, because this the the Securitate’s role now: to bankrupt, take the money, and if possible, to kill someone again.  These people, finally, due to a courageous judge, were sentenced for murder.   
I feel threatened in my own country when I see the state institutions making common front with the killers, if these happened to have been Party activists, securitate or Militia members.  This is what appals me.  When I see that my Government, because the Police reports to the Government, does nothing to apprehend these former militiamen and serve the sentences for their crimes". (A.A.)