* DILLEMA No. 1: IS IT POTRA IN THE PICTURE OR NOT?
In a photo taken on October 30th, Horaţiu Potra, the head of the Association of the Former Romanian Members of the Foreign Legion (RALF) or someone who looks strikingly like him, appears behind the policemen escorting commissioner Traian Berbeceanu, to the High Court of Cassation and Justice. The photograph was published by many newspapers, without anyone noticing this detail.
Horaţiu Potra was arrested by commissioner Berbeceanu, three years ago, in September 2010, under the charge of illegal possession of firearms and drug trafficking, receiving a conviction with suspension.
The case was presented in a controversial manner in the press. Antena 3 around the arsenal of weapons found at the base of the RALF, where Potra conducts training for bodyguards.
With the exception of an unregistered revolver, it would appear that the weapons were legally owned and with justification, given the nature of the occupation of Potra (he was active for five years in the Foreign Legion, after he was the head of security of some African personalities). For drugs the judges also decided that there was no conclusive evidence.
The most obvious solution would be to think that Horaţiu Potra wanted to witness the humiliation of Berbeceanu, seeing the one who arrested him in handcuffs himself.
But acquaintances of Potra claim that holding grudges is not in his nature, and he is "immune" to it after the dangers he has encountered in his career as a fighter (repeated incarcerations and escapes).
Investigation journalists are whispering that Horaţiu Potra has recently become a partner in the businesses that Frank Timiş has in Africa and that it is possible he wasn't in Romania on October 30th.
This would mean that the person in the photo is not Potra, just someone who looks like him.
At any