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Criminal negligence in Onești in the two workers killed by a 68-year-old man who kidnapped them for hours in their old apartment. The city policemen, the first to intervene, simply scoffed at the entire intervention: they laughed at the demands of the man, waving a knife with a 12-inch blade from the window, discussions captured even by the body cameras they had. . . They even had the keys to the apartment, but they didn’t even try to use them. All these aspects are included in the final report of the investigation carried out by the Police Directorate in this case.
The shocking detail that clearly shows that the police mocked the hostage crisis is that they had the key to the apartment, but did not even try to use it. Finally, the door was broken with a ram, a noisy operation that lasted several minutes, during which time the aggressor was in the apartment with his victims whom he had stabbed.
The police had the obligation to keep these body cameras (video cameras) turned on from the beginning of the intervention until the end of it, but, according to information from Digi24, they did not do so, they stopped them from time to time, when they wanted. But still they were not arrested when they had an almost absurd dialogue with the aggressor.
One of the policemen, who was in front of the block, told him: “Open the door, let’s go in!”, And the aggressor asked him from the balcony: “Who are you, me?” Policeman’s response: “I am here too.” At the time, all the police officers who attended the scene laughed and continued to ridicule the claims that the man had in the apartment.
The aggressor had four cases of violence. One of them, inaugurated in 2021
On the other hand, it was known that the aggressor had a violent past, but this aspect was ignored by the police. The Onești police chiefs must have been very clear that the man had four more cases of violence, and one of them had been opened in 2021, when the aggressor attacked a woman, entered her house and threatened her, all with a knife .
However, that case was closed because the victim withdrew her complaint, but the police should have known very clearly who she was dealing with. Or, in the reports they made to the superiors in Bucharest, they presented Gheorghe Moroșan as a retiree who would have lost his apartment earlier this year (the apartment had been lost for ten years, no).
Incorrect and late data transmission
Therefore, the data they reported was wrong. And they were not the only omissions.
“The negotiator was not informed about the author’s telephone dialogue with the operator of 112 and, therefore, was not aware of the possible allegations made by him,” Quaestor Florentin Brăcea, who was sent to investigate at the scene, said on Thursday.
Furthermore, the police reported the incident to their superiors very late and did not follow the procedure. Romanian police commanders officially learned from their subordinates in Bacău of the incident in Onești almost two hours after the deaths of the victims. That is, only at 7:00 p.m.,
The Bacău policemen announced to their superiors in Bucharest what is happening through a WhatsApp group, but according to the law, they should have made all these reports officially, in the police computer system.
This information came out from Onești to IPJ Bacău only after 16:00, that is, more than four hours since everything started.
In addition, officially, IPJ Bacău announced IGPR about the hostage crisis at 7:00 p.m., that is, more than two hours after the moment when the two workers were already dead.
Hostage-taking procedure, searched on the internet
But there are other mind-boggling details revealed by the internal police investigation.
The head of SAS Bacău, the head of the special troops, did not come to the scene quickly, as his duties would have required, but he stayed somewhere, around 16:00 in the office, sending his subordinates there.
But perhaps the most shocking detail is that, according to Digi24, the IPJ Bacău deputy, the one in charge and who should have coordinated everything, stayed a long time, too, in his office, and all this time he searched the Internet, in Interpol, which is the procedure for intervention in the event of hostage-taking.
14 police officers, including the head of SAS, subject to investigations
Police chiefs began by publicly apologizing on Thursday: “I would like to offer my condolences to the bereaved families and publicly apologize, on behalf of the Romanian Police, for how the police officers involved handle the event,” said the quaestor. Eduard Miritescu, commander of the Romanian police.
The final report of the investigation recommends the disciplinary investigation of 14 police officers. Some of them are accused of depriving the only official willing to defuse such a conflict of information.
Police chiefs say there was enough data to justify a forceful intervention. He accuses the Bacău police of superficially documenting the author’s profile.
“It is easy to understand that the Bacău police had all the necessary indications for a forceful intervention in this case. What was transmitted, from the LEI Bacău level to the IGPR was that a man, over 60 years old, without a criminal record and without mental problems, threatens two people, given the litigation over the loss, earlier this year, of the apartment, “said Quaestor Florentin Brăcea.
The police could eliminate the aggressor
Regarding the intervention, the commander of the Special Action Structures clearly says that there was no need for a rappel descent and at least snipers, if the decision was made to eliminate the aggressor:
“You don’t need a sniper rifle. For various reasons: the distance from the base of the site to the upper limit of the subject on the balcony is 10 meters. The distance from the base of the block to the center of the alley that separated the target block of the opposite block is eight meters. The Pythagorean theorem tells us that the direct shooting distance is between 12 and 13 meters. Between 12 and 13 meters, any Romanian police officer, with the pistol provided, could execute precision fire, since the target was a 140 kg man “said Alexandru Scurtu, director of SIAS.
“If we have the access keys to the door of the indicated department and we do not check them, for various reasons, we are talking again about opportunities that the Package will establish whether they were or were not or are only in our head”, Alexandru Scurtu underlined, director of SIAS.
Police sources say the report says, in black and white, that those who acted incorrectly are morally responsible for the deaths of the two electricians. In addition to the disciplinary investigation proposed by the final report, the Ministry of the Interior has already notified the Prosecutor’s Office, due to negligence in the position.
What happened at Onești’s apartment?
On March 1, 2021, a 68-year-old man kidnapped two workers from an apartment in Oneşti, after which he announced on 112 that he would kill them. Law enforcement officers and a negotiator arrived at the scene and tried for several hours to persuade the man not to resort to the act.
The man stabbed the two workers, at which point police entered the apartment and shot the attacker. One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene and the second died in hospital.
The assailant was hospitalized for medical attention.
The apartment where the murders took place had belonged to the attacker and was now owned by the Chimcomplex, following a forced execution. Prosecutors have opened a criminal case for aggravated murder in the Gheorghe Moroșan case.
Following the incident, the Romanian police leadership ordered a team of specialists, led by the Romanian Police Deputy Inspector General, Police Quaestor Florentin Bracea, to travel urgently to Bacău County to verify how to intervene in the event.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
