Bucharest Tribunal scandalises even the magistrates: Chinese mafia member has been acquitted after having killed and chopped two co-nationals. Elsewhere in the news, the Romanian Police imposed a daily norm for fines: at least 10. Last but not least, "this country needs an enlightened dictatorship sometimes".
Bucharest Tribunal scandalises even the magistrates: Chinese mafia member has been acquitted after having killed and chopped two co-nationals, Evenimentul Zilei informs. His crimes disgusted the public opinion in mid-90s, but now the Chinese criminal is free to walk on the streets of Bucharest. The proof brought by investigators and supported by criminologists, forensic experts and 24 witnesses could not hold the Chinese in prison.
The proof show that the murderer killed two men in cold blood, chopped them to pieces, boiled their meat and flushed them away in a house in Dimitrie Cantemir Boulevard from Bucharest. Prosecutor’s accusations cover half of the Penal Code. Despite the arms, grenades, fingerprints, blood tests and witnesses' statements, Judge Viorica Dinu was not impressed and decided to set Zhao Tun Guo free, on the grounds that he "did not take part in the deeds".
The assassin is free until the magistrate will motivate her decision and prosecutors can appeal. The Chinese can leave the country if he so wishes. Law specialists contacted by EVZ contest the verdict. According to them, the Czechs used the fingerprints found on the sticky tape he used to tie his victims in order to identify him. Plus, she might need to explain why she kept him under preventive arrest for two years and a half if she doubted his guilt.
The Romanian magistrate doubted the identity tests were accurate, blood tests for example, and asked for the accused to be subjected to the lie detector. He "failed" the tests and experts decided he wa
