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Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday afternoon in University Square, but also in Victoriei Square. sto protest the restrictions imposed by the authorities to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. It was intended to be a protest by parents, unhappy with the obligation for children to wear a mask in schools, but the participants were of all ages. Parents came with their children, some very young, in strollers.
© Photo in the middle of the photo / Octav Ganea
Among the protesters you could see people dressed as priests, nuns, but also the director Cristi Puiu and the actress Carmen Tănase. The large number of tricolor flags of the protesters was also remarkable.
VIDEO. Images from the University Square at 17:00
Director Cristi Puiu was the subject of an incident at TIFF last month, when he had a controversial speech against protective masks.
The people who gathered in the University Square on Saturday shouted “Freedom!” and “Down with the muzzle!” They say that the rules of the pandemic are a “masquerade”, I do not believe in their usefulness, since COVID is just a flu, in their opinion. They also compared schools to some “camps”, due to the mandatory use of a sanitary mask and Plexiglas spacers.
VIDEO. Images from the Plaza de la Universidad at 6:00 p.m. Cristi Puiu and Carmen Tănase, among the protesters
At the height of the protest, there were between 350 and 400 people. The only people wearing masks were journalists and gendarmes. The latter tried to persuade people to go home, being an unauthorized protest. On alert, gatherings of more than 100 people are prohibited. Also, people could not mask or maintain social distance.
VIDEO. Images of the University Square at 7:00 p.m.
The maximum penalty they risk is a fine of 10,000 lei, but the gendarmes preferred to talk with them in the first phase, according to Digi24. Georgian Enache, the spokesman for the Gendarmerie. He said that people mobilized through social media.
Doctors, concerned: “Unconsciousness!”
Doctors sound the alarm and say that due to these meetings, many outbreaks of infection could occur, including in schools, as the protesters also brought their children to the protest. “Unconsciousness”, this is how Dr. Radu Țincu characterized the images. Check out the full comment on the video below:
Ioana Stăncel, a public health specialist, told Digi24 that it is an action that, although it respects the right to opinion, the protesters must choose other routes and not expose anyone to risk, because there is a risk of outbreaks, outbreaks . that will reach the schools or that will probably multiply in the means of transport. “The people (of the demonstration) did not protect themselves, there is a risk that the contaminated people will leave,” he said. Ioana Stăncel.
Andreea Moldovan, director of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Brașov, was frankly “shocked.” “I am shocked by the images, the presence of those who are in the market. It is a lack of respect for patients and medical staff. (…) It seems to me a striking lack of responsibility. It’s like when you drive aberrantly and you can hurt those around you, ”Andreea Moldovan said.
On the other hand, the doctor says he noticed that as people began to become widely infected, he saw people who were initially reluctant to reconsider their opinion.
Who called for protests in the University Square and Victoriei Square
A protest announced by the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) takes place on Saturday in Victoriei Square and in University Square, party co-chairman, George Simion, stating that the protesters demand “that the return to the right to protest be incorporated” which “was canceled in the pandemic” and accusing the current power of “political repression against parties outside Parliament,” writes Agerpres.
“It is a marathon of spontaneous protest, I brought this bus that went around the country for a month and a half. We have suffered a lot of repression by the police, we have received fines of more than 20,000 lei and we are fighting for our freedom, including the return to the right to protest. The right to protest was canceled in this pandemic and we ask all these people, almost a thousand so far, but perhaps they will return, to return to the right to protest and human rights that were suspended during the pandemic, “he declared for AGERPRES, George Simion.
He added that he has ten specific demands, “from the removal of the Minister of Transport for the accident he caused, to the investigation of all the acquisitions made during the pandemic. We want the schools to carry out their activity normally, it does not exist online at the moment in Romania, it is just a sham and we believe that this protest will last as long as our demands are met, ”said the AUR leader.
In a patriotic musical context, the protesters in Victoriei Square and University Square carried banners with anti-government documents and waved tricolor flags.
