Cristian Tudor Popescu was fined 5,000 lei by CNCD for the article “Satan in cassock”



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The board of directors of the National Council to Combat Discrimination (CNCD) fined Cristian Tudor Popescu and Oreste Teodorescu this Wednesday for “violating the right to dignity” in an article, respectively, a television program.

At the Wednesday meeting where the December 16, 2020 petitions were resolved.

Cristian Tudor Popescu was fined for the text “Satan in cassock” published on 10.28.2020, on the republica.ro portal. The CNCD decided that the text exceeds the limits of freedom of expression and represents the act of discrimination and violates the right to dignity according to art. 2 par. (1) and art. 15 of GO 137/2000, reissued. Cristian Tudor Popescu was fined 5,000 lei. The decision was adopted by 5 votes in favor, 2 against and 1 abstention.

Also in Wednesday’s meeting, it was established that the statement by which, on Realitatea TV, in the Oreste Teodorescu program, with Marius Pascan as a guest, the UDMR was compared to the new Coronavirus that “enters the host’s body , after which it multiplies – and the anti-national gene takes control of political decisions “represents the act of discrimination and violates the right to dignity of the members of the organization in question, according to art. 2 par. (1) and art. 15 of GO 137/2000, reissued. Oreste Teodorescu and Marius Pascan received the sanction of a misdemeanor fine of 2,000 lei. Decision adopted by 7 votes in favor and 1 against.

Cristian Tudor Popescu was present on December 7 at a hearing at the National Council to Combat Discrimination, after making a complaint on behalf of the Non-Assumed Association, claiming that the journalist “offended the entire Christian-Orthodox spirit” when he criticized to Patriarch Daniel. .

On November 2, 2020, the Neamunit Association filed a complaint with the CNCD, notifying “the serious deviations directed against Romanian Orthodox Christians, the Romanian Orthodox Church and its Primate.”

At the end of October, the CTP and the Orthodox Church, through its spokesperson, exchanged comments.


Popescu published the article “Satan in cassock” on October 28, in which he wrote: “His Eminence Daniel, the leader of the BOR, shows that Romanian orthodoxy remained at the level of the Egyptian cult a few thousand years ago. In fact, even below, because the priests of Thebes even knew enough astronomy to calculate the time of eclipses. To deceive people, the charlatan Daniel does not need mathematics or logic, he gives it directly, like a cry for the cattle that herd them : Hear what, because he banned the pilgrimage to the relics of Saint Demetrius in October 1989, communism fell in a few months. “

Vasile Banescu, the spokesman for the Patriarchate, reacted in very harsh terms to what he calls “the spill in the media space of the suburban attacks against the Church and the Patriarch Father,” calling on those who criticized the Patriarch’s statements on the occasion. the feasts of Saint Dumitru “pseudo-journalists living in their iron bubble”, “cultural illiterates, disfigured by uncontrollable grimaces of hatred who have no idea about the real, often bloody history of Christian Romania, Christianity and the Orthodox Church, small and poisonous people, morally disabled, self-indulgent, culturally poor and heartless people, who make invective, mischievous irony, ridiculous ethical parade and distortion of reality, tools of journalistic analysis.

“To the article of the undersigned, BOR responds through its spokesperson with a long and murky stream of insults, sudalmi, curses, sictir, devils, in short, bapeamatii. My text, critic, contains questions, facts, reasoning. Every word The production of the BOR announcer makes me think of the performance of the former mayor’s spokeswoman, the creature of television who deals with the sway of her opponents, in no case with a priest, a theologian, a man of the Church, a Christian. Logically and humanly, I have no way of responding to such a thing “, was, the next day, the message of Cristian Tudor Popescu.

Subsequently, the representatives considered that they should act and announced: “These statements unleashed by their virulence a wave of hatred against the Orthodox Church and ours, ordinary believers. We mention that any attack on our National Church represents and an attack on Us , of YOUR CHILDREN, as well as a direct attack on our National Being ”.

The memorandum presented establishes: “The discriminatory behavior of the so-called CT Popescu towards orthodox citizens, in public, had as its main objective the serious violation of people’s dignity.”

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