Romanians again to protest against the Government after police violence which left more than 400 wounded

more than 40,000 Romanians have become manifest itself today in Bucharest to reject the violence that police used last night during a massive “anti-Government protest, which ended with 440 wounded, 30 of them agents.” Resignation”and”don’t be afraid, the Romanians are raised”chanted thousands of citizens gathered in the Plaza de la Victoria, where is the headquarters of the Executive.” Gendarmes beat me last night, I was beaten with truncheons on the face and legs, though to let them know that I was doing my job to inform”, told Efe, Robert Mihailescu, journalist of the informational portal Hotnews.ro.tambien the Austrian Government and “the public broadcasting from that country, ORF, have criticised the aggression to a station camera.” Freedom of expression and freedom of the press, linked to it, are fundamental freedoms of the European Union with which we identify ourselves and which must be protected unconditionally,”said Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastián Kurz, in a message on Twitter.Los clashes between the riot police and demonstrators left a balance of more than 450 wounded, 30 of them policemen. The Romanian Minister of the Interior, Carmen Dan, said at press conference that the security forces acted against organized groups of “hooligans” and who did so only when they were attacked while defending the institutions of the Estado.Sin however, in the network social Facebook you can see videos that show peaceful protesters are beaten up by agents. It estimates that in yesterday’s protest involving more than 100,000 people, many of them Romanians residing abroad who denounced the corruption that prevents that it improves the quality of life to be able to return to their country. The President of Romania, the conservative Klaus Iohannis, criticized the “brutal way of proceeding” by the police against demonstrators and accused the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) bring the country toward chaos. At the protest this Saturday, many people came to protest against brutality by the police, but also to protest against corruption and to demand the resignation of the Prime Minister, the Social Democrat Viorica Dancila, which see puppet of the President of his party, Liviu Dragnea.Dragnea is regarded as the real strongman of Romania, although not can be invested as Chief Executive by a sentence in 2016 pro electoral fraud. The coalition Government, led by the Social Democrats, has taken in recent years several controversial measures, which critics say hinder the fight against corruption, and that have caused several waves of popular protests. February 2017 occurred in the largest wave of protests since the fall of communism in 1989 by the attempt of the Government to decriminalize offences of corruption.

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