Spectacular armed robberies appeared like mushrooms in Romania in the past month, one newspaper reads on Monday. Elsewhere in the news, most major projects proposed by Bucharest's mayor Sorin Oprescu were rejected in the General Council. Also in Bucharest, 50,000 companies could disappear due to the economic crisis.
Romania libera reads about the concerning increase of armed robberies across Romania in the past month. In order to prevent their expansion, the government plans to send 2,000 police officers in the streets and change the law regulating the security requirements for banks.
The first reaction of police forces was to scan the country: they found 54 people listed as wanted by the police; 96 possible felons and 916 suspects currently under investigation.
Romania's Interior Minister Dan Nica declared that in his opinion, there was no direct connection between the financial crisis and the robbery cases. Nica said that the police would win the fight against felons and accuses Transilvania Bank, recently robed of 60,000 euro, of not taking enough security measures.
However, Bank officials reject the criticism and declared that their security plan was approved by the Interior Ministry regulations and fully comply to law 333/2003 regarding the protection of goods.
Cotidianul reads that the most important projects proposed by Bucharest's mayor Sorin Oprescu were rejected in the General Council of the City Hall. Counselors refused to approve the projects, on grounds that they are too expensive and unrealistic.
The team of seven counselors who supported the mayor in the local elections started to disentangle. Two of the seven abandoned him already: Rosemarie Olanescu and Victor Dimitriu. Thus, Olanescu declared that despite some image actions, nothing has happened in Bucharest. She added that Opre
