VIDEO Patrol light: Candle exposes the police to COVID-19 by sending them with lighted candles in hospitals and quarantined areas

Believers must have the declaration at their own risk.

“In the Declaration under his own responsibility, at the place of travel, the believer will make the specification For the lifting of the Holy Easter of the Church (the name of the place of worship) in the area of ​​residence of the respective person. The representatives of the MIA will guarantee public order during the distribution of Easter.

Parish employees, members of parish councils and volunteers, as organizers, will ensure the observance of social distance and the regulations stipulated in military ordinances during the distribution of Easter, having as a distinctive sign a banner on the arm . For sick believers and those over 65, Easter will be distributed at home by volunteers, Friday and Saturday or the first day of Easter (April 19), starting at 06:00 in the morning, in accordance with the measures of protection, sanitary mask and gloves. “The minister said.

• The blessed bread, in the form of small recipes, sprinkled with water and wine, called Easter, consecrated this year on Holy Thursday, April 16, after the Holy Liturgy, will be distributed to believers on Friday, April 17 and Saturday, 18 of April. between the hours of 07.00 to 17.00, in all the parishes of the Romanian Patriarchate, in specially arranged places, outside the places of worship, by the employees of the church and by the volunteers respecting the production measures (sanitary mask, social distance from 2 meters, marked in front of the specially arranged place), similar to grocery stores.

• In the Declaration under his own responsibility, at the place of travel, the believer will make the specification For the lifting of the Holy Easter of the Church (the name of the place of worship) in the area of ​​residence of the respective person.

• The representatives of the Ministry of the Interior (Police, Border Police, Gendarmerie, Fire and Local Police) will guarantee public order throughout the distribution of Easter.

• Parish employees, members of parish councils, and volunteers, as organizers, will ensure observance of social distance and regulations stipulated in military ordinances during the distribution of Passover, bearing a distinctive white banner on the arm.

• For sick believers and those over 65, Easter will be distributed at home by volunteers, Friday and Saturday (April 17 and 18) or the first day of Easter (April 19), starting at 06:00 in the morning , in compliance with the protection measures, sanitary mask and gloves.

• The distribution of the Holy Light brought from Jerusalem on the night of Saturday, April 18, 2020, around 7 pm, will be carried out by the volunteers of the parishes and by the existing public order teams and patrols under the coordination of the MIA on mission (Police, Border Police, Gendarmerie, Fire, Local Police, as well as MapN panels), starting at 8:00 p.m.

• Believers will be able to move outside the house, outside the court or the building where they live, following the rules of the social space, to avoid crowding and the formation of groups of more than three people. In this sense, two or three tenants on a block scale can offer the Holy Light, received from the volunteers, to all the neighbors.

• In the quarantined areas, the Holy Light will be brought in with the help of the Ministry of the Interior staff from the Episcopal Centers of the parishes in the quarantined areas.

• On the night of the Resurrection, the movement of all the priests who distribute the Sacred Light to the homes of the believers is allowed, as well as to the volunteers, who will have in them the Identity Card, the nominal parish of the parish, the mask and protective gloves.

• Crews operating in fixed positions and at border points, who are on missions coordinated by the Ministry of the Interior, will offer the Holy Light to people in transit (according to the transit exceptions provided in the previous military ordinances) or who cross border.

• Existing personnel under the coordination of the Ministry of the Interior, on a mission on the night of the Resurrection, will distribute the Holy Light to hospitals, social centers and quarantine centers.

Policemen criticize the fact that they become itinerant commissioners for the Church

The initiative of the Minister of the Interior is harshly criticized both by employees of the Ministry of the Interior and by civil society.

Cosmin Andreica, president of the EUROPOL Union, considers that the decision is at least strange, now, when the police are worried about verifying how the military ordinances are respected. “We can barely deal on the street with verifying those who go crazy.” We also stay in the markets to ensure that social spacing measures are respected and to maintain public order measures. Only the mission to distribute the Holy Light was missing. I don’t even know how colleagues will protect themselves. We have to think that they will come into contact with dozens or hundreds of people, and when they leave the office they go home with the same clothes that can get infected. Furthermore, it is also a matter of principle. If church volunteers know those who indicated they want to receive the Light, we don’t have this information, especially in little-known neighborhoods. How do you go and put the Light in people’s throats? “, Question.

For his part, the president of the National Union of Police and Contract Staff of the Ministry of the Interior, Dumitru Coarnă, considers that the project of sending the police to distribute Light is a utopia. “From a logistical point of view, we simply cannot do this. And we have to think about protecting the police as well as protecting parishioners. Right now we have almost 200 police officers infected. You realize that, by not to be tested, we don’t know how many police officers took the new coronavirus. We certainly have colleagues infected, but I don’t know because they are asymptomatic. If we send them to give birth, I give the virus. And the reciprocal is valid. A police officer can take the coronavirus from an infected person, but they don’t know it ”, he says.

Sociologist Mircea Kivu believes that the decision to send the policemen with the Light of Resurrection can create really dangerous situations. “From a legal point of view, but also as a matter of principle, the Police have nothing to do and should not participate in religious demonstrations just because of their specific nature, to maintain public order and peace. This is how the waters mix It is good that the state, through its institutions, is a state and that the church remains in its affairs. Also, we know very well what will happen on the stairs of the blocks. People will go out to take the Light in great numbers. , will form agglomerations, or the purpose of state institutions is exactly the opposite, to maintain social distance. The police have the mission to limit human contacts, but this approach will have exactly the opposite effect. Let’s think about the consequences that such approach could have on a plausible stage. In an apartment block bring the Light to an infected, but asymptomatic police … I can’t understand. In the Vatican, it couldn’t be tar without the Light this year, but it is impossible for us, “said the sociologist.

Also today, President Klaus Iohannis announced the extension of the state of emergency for another 30 days, declaring that the danger has not passed, and a relaxation of the restrictions, as some politicians “unconsciously” demand, would lead to a sharp increase in cases. .

“We issue the decree extending the state of emergency for 30 days. Despite the unprecedented restrictions adopted by the world’s states, there are no signs of a slowdown in the global pandemic. The number of infected and deceased people is increasing. We We are facing an epidemic that is very difficult to control. Without these isolation measures, we would have experienced an explosion of cases that our health system could not handle. It is the black scenario that we set out to avoid. The danger has not passed, and a relaxation of the restrictions as some politicians unconsciously demand would lead to new cases, “the president said.