For seven years, "BURSA" has been writing about the destruction of Romania"s forests - but the authorities have yet to lift a finger.

A very nice and wise man - Garda Deszo has been fighting the logging mafia of the county of Harghita for years, trying to get convictions, and haggling with the police, trying to get it to act on the rulings; now he is fighting the bureaucracy in the Parliament, who watches indifferently his harassment by the local justice (he is now being punished for his fight against the theft of wood when he was a deputy and he had immunity).

There is no reaction whatsoever from the authorities.

But it is rather normal, because the authorities are part of the timber mafia themselves.

And Garda Deszo fought against the theft in which the authorities participated themselves or were at the very least complicit in.

That is why, after the assassination attempt on Pal Emeric (which was reported in yesterday"s edition of "BURSA") the brave colleague of Garda Deszo, we don"t expect the authorities to do anything against the mobsters.

We are, however concerned about the security of the two and we want to get them under the protection of the public.

We want to thank our colleagues in the media which covered the case: hotnews.ro, ziuaveche.ro, reportervirtual.ro, cmts.ro, ziaruldevrancea.ro, cdnews.ro.

We want to thank to any other colleagues who wrote about this case that we don"t know about.

Here are some of the comments posted by readers on our website:

* 1. A true Romanian

A lot of strength and courage to fight the forest mafia.

It"s revolting what we have come to... it"s absolutely outrageous that you can be killed in cold blood for demanding your rights which should be guaranteed by the Constitution.

God help us get through!

* 2. This country is going to hell...