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Health Minister Nelu Tătaru stated on Friday, Iaşi, that after discussions about the incidents of the holy Parascheva holiday, he learned that pilgrims coming from outside the city were allowed to enter and worship in the coffin with the relics of the saint “with a religious and civic spirit”, although the law clearly prohibited the presence of citizens residing outside Iasi.
“At that time, the discussions were about the fact that those people came, they made themselves known and if they still entered Iasi, they were given with a religious and civic spirit to enter. the reaction is something that must be evaluated and the forces of order can fulfill their duty ”, said the Minister of Health.
Nelu Tătaru told reporters that he speaks from the point of view of medical personnel and hopes that both citizens and authorities will respect the law.
“I will speak from the point of view of the medical staff that I have been meeting with for over 7 months. And they have faith in their souls, and they treat them with faith, and they pray at the entrance, and they pray when they go home. , and pray during the night that the patient is better the next day. We have faith in the soul, and since we have specified that this year we must adapt the pilgrimages to the pandemic and not the pandemic to the pilgrimages. We have some restrictions, we have some rules, we have some legislation – Law 55, we also have bodies that must manage the observance of this law I hope that we respect the law (…) We have some rules, we have some measures, and some laws that “The fact of that we have believed and continue to believe in civic spirit has made us see that the world does not respect these rules. Respect them and the forces of order fulfill their duty, “added the minister.
On October 14, after Theophanes, metropolitan of Moldavia and Bucovina, officiated the Liturgical Service on the occasion of the Feast of Saint Pía Parascheva, people from other cities or areas of the country forced access to the metropolitan courtyard and the gendarmerie cordon to the cult. in the coffin with the relics of the saint. The intervention forces withdrew, the people coming from outside Iasi came to the coffin. Thus, the measures of the National Council for Emergency Situations were ignored, stipulating that the participation of believers in religious festivals should be allowed only to those who have their domicile in the respective locality.
For several hours, representatives of the Bacău Gendarmes Mobile Group or those of the local authorities could not be reached to express a point of view on the incident and the decision to withdraw the police. People from other locations were allowed access for several hours.
The Interior Minister, Marcel Vela, declared this Thursday in Timişoara that the lifting of the restrictions in the case of the pilgrimage from Iaşi represented “an operational decision, to save a situation that could degenerate.”
“When a decision that is adopted saves a serious situation, these decisions are taken in a legal and professional way by those who analyze exactly the operative moment of a certain situation, area or event. So what happened in Iasi was an operational decision to save a situation that could degenerate and become very serious, both for those involved in the event and for what it means to damage the image of our country that would have been speculated in the national or international media on “Let’s say possible violence between those who were waiting to enter the cemetery and the forces of order that were going to prohibit this,” explained Marcel Vela.
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