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The former mayor of sector 4 Cristian Popescu Piedone – sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in the Colectiv case and left office after thousands of people demanded his resignation on the street after the tragedy at the Colectiv club – comments on Facebook about his electoral victory after which he was elected mayor of sector 5, claiming that “the judgment of the people has decided.”
Piedone commented on his victory on Facebook, stating that he “decided to judge people.”
Piedone Message:
- “The people’s judgment has decided!
- Dear friends, the truth has won! Justice has won! We won! Together!
- While the rest of the candidates had parties behind them that invested large sums in electoral campaigns, I had you, the inhabitants of Sector 5! The most important ally! The only ally that matters! For you I signed up for this career, for your children and for this sector that deserves to come to light!
- Children in Sector 5 deserve to grow up beautifully and safely! Sector 5 seniors deserve to live decently after a working life! Everyone deserves to be treated with respect!
- I asked you to trust me and you did not disappoint! I promise I won’t let you down either! I’ll get to work! You deserve to live in a sector where your opinion matters, where you are heard! Things will change, dear friends! I will be with you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, together we will find a solution to the problems that have been plaguing you for so long.
- I’m going to town hall! I come with the people, with the inhabitants of sector 5! The city hall is actually for the people! And you, impure, go home! You’ve done a lot of damage!
- God has been on our side! We start the job with faith and confidence! “
Who is Piedone
Popescu Piedone was mayor of Sector 4 from 2008 to November 2015, when he resigned a few days after the fire in the Colectiv club, as a result of which 64 young people died. Piedone resigned on November 4, 2015, the same day as then-Prime Minister Víctor Ponta, after thousands of people demanded his resignation on the street.
- After all the reactions of the last few days, after the emotion and anger totally justified and expressed in public space in search of the guilty, after yesterday’s rally in the Capital in which thousands of bucharest people demanded my resignation, I had time to reflect and I came to the following conclusion: Today I resign as Mayor of Sector 4, out of respect for the victims of the tragedy, and I hope that the legislative vacuum and administrative deficiencies will sound the alarm, from the simplest civil servant to the most high forum. Perhaps when thousands of people take to the streets to ask you to leave and thousands more ask for the same thing on social networks, sometimes it is good to listen, ”Piedone said at the time.
In December last year, the Bucharest Court issued the first judgments in the collective case. The court then decided that the former mayor of Sector 4 should remain behind bars for eight years and six months and not be able to enjoy further rights for five years.
Thus, Piedone was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison for abuse of office if the official obtained an undue benefit for another, with particularly serious consequences, plus additional punishment with the prohibition of rights with a duration of 5 years. He also received 3 years in prison for abuse of office if the official obtained an undue benefit for another and a complementary sanction of 3 years of prohibition of certain rights. Under the Penal Code, he will serve the harshest sentence, namely 7 years and 6 months in prison, plus a year of increase.
The decision taken by the Bucharest Court in December 2019 is not final and is appealed to the Bucharest Court of Appeal. On Wednesday, September 30, the Bucharest Court of Appeal will begin, after a postponement, the trial of the appeal in the case.
However, it is not the only conviction of Cristian Popescu Piedone. In 2018, he was definitively sentenced to one year in prison with suspension, for committing the crime of using the function to favor certain people. Specifically, Piedone was found guilty of using his mayoral position to benefit his children’s businesses.
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