Three drunk Romanian citizens in Alba Iulia, central Romania stirred up a scandal between the Romanian government and the Hungarian one. The Hungarian minority in Romania amounts to 1.5 million compared to 7 million Romanians living in Transylvania. A compromise solution to the territorial reorganization project, to merge communes dissatisfies the Hungarian minority just as much. Nevertheless, county council presidents are often involved in corruption scandals: one newspaper reads that Mures county council president’s company signed 56 contracts with public authorities worth 5.5 million euro.
Gandul wonders on Wednesday whether the scandal stirred up by three drunk Romanians in Alba Iulia, central Romania by breaking windows and vandalizing buildings pertaining to both Romanian and Hungarians can be considered an interethnic conflict.
This weekend, three drunk Romanian citizens vandalized the houses of both Romanians and Hungarian houses. According to local police officers, two Hungarian ethnic citizens came out their houses to see what is going on and they were hit by the three Romanians.
The agressors were held by the local police but prosecutors decided to investigate them in freedom. However, to make sure that they cover all dimensions of the scandal that echoed to Budapest prosecutors also investigate the three for discrimination.
On Monday night, Hungary’s foreign affairs ministry declared he was shocked by a series of incidents against Hungarians in Alba Iulia, Romania. The Hungarian officials said the scandal contrast bluntly with the openness and close cooperation that characterized the Hungarian Romanian relationships in the last period.
Today, the Romanian Foreign Affairs ministry reacted to the gesture and demanded more clarifications. The Romanian officials said that their Hungarian counterparts
