Due to other media scandals and interests, the case of the Terrorist in slippers disappeared as if it never existed.
Is there anything left of it?
It is. A young man is in jail, and has few chances of getting free in a country in which the General Prosecutorâs Office is not responsible in any way of its excesses.
Of all the consequences of the scandal in Buzias, the situation of Florin Lesch seems the most concerning for me. Of all the journalists that treated this case, the only one that raised the issue regarding the situation of the person accused of terrorism was Dan Tapalaga, who works for Cotidianul. I donât agree with the opinion of our younger colleague who sees this as a little piece in a puzzle to serve the secret servicesâ interests. The thing I agree with is the journalistâs thoughts regarding the lack of concern from the press, as well as the one from the civil society regarding the fate of Florin Lesch.
In America, the real terrorists are defended by the press and by the civil society when they are the victims of excesses.
Because America understood a fact that isnât taken into consideration in our poor democratic republic. That fact that there is nothing in this world to allow the straining of the human rights.
If the press and the civil society look the other way when excesses of the institutions that fight against terrorism appear, the premises for the straining of the statutes in other cases appear as well.
Florin Lesch pleaded not guilty in front of the Appeal Court, as well as in front of the High Court of Justice and Cassation.
No one in the press or in the civil society seemed interested in the main data of the scandal in order to find out whether this is a diversion of the secret services. A diversion the consequence of which is that an innocent man is behind bars and risks to stay there
