Recorder: Lucian Pahonțu, SPP Chief, Was an Officer in the Security Corps and Participated on 21 Dec 1989 in the Violence at Inter
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President Nicoușor Dan states that the head of the Protection and Security Service (SPP), Lucian Pahonţu, is not in the situation of a person who participated in repressive actions in the 1989 Revolution or in the mining of the 1990s. I saw a press article that has a title that is not justified by content. I don't know what the scandal is, says Nicoușor Dan.
General (rtr) John Dan, the former deputy chief of military parks of the 1990s and the prosecutor who coordinated, at the beginning of that decade, the Romanian Revolution File of December 1989, made statements for Stiripesurse.ro in connection with the recently published disclosures by Recorder about the past of the current director of the Protection and Security Service (SPP), Lucian Pahonțu.
General Lucian Pahonțu, the chief of the SPP, was part of the Security Corps before 1989 and was present, as a platoon commander, at the events of the night of December 21, 1989 in the area of the former Intercontinental hotel in Bucharest, where there was a violent repression of the demonstration that began that day, revealed Recorder.ro. The cited publication consulted documents from the Revolution's file, including a statement by Pahonțiu, wh…
HotNews asked Traian Basescu, the former president of Romania, who appointed Lucian Pahonțu as chief of the SPP, if he ever knew that he participated in the events of 21 December 1989 and 13 June 1990 as officer of the repression forces. According to an investigation published Wednesday by Recorder and undisclosed ...
The revelations about Lucian Pahonțu's past cannot be closed either by a presidential statement of innocence, or by a political condemnation pronounced before the fact-finding. Recorder investigation proves that the current Director of the Protection and Security Service was an officer and platoon commander in the Security Corps and that, on the night of December 21, 1989, ... The post Six things that state institutions can and must do, if they …
USR Member Stelian Ion, former Minister of Justice, claims that it is "absolutely abnormal" for a person to be held in office after he was found to have been an officer in Romania's security forces during the 1989 Revolution.
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