The feminicide of a girl of 15 years shakes all Romania: resignations and political scandal

The feminicide of a 15-year-old girl, Alexandra Macesanu, affects all of Romania. The delay in responding to calls for help from the teenager caused a wave of outrage that plunged the government into a major political crisis, to the point that two officials resigned.

The girl was raped and kidnapped by a man. While seeking the remains of this 15-year-old man, the company witnesses the investigation traumatized by the incompetence of officials involved in the management of the proceedings. The Minister of Education had to resign for an unfortunate sentence.

The keys of the case

• The 15-year-old Romanian teenager disappeared last Wednesday, June 24, in the southern province of Olt, while she was fingered on a route.
• The young teenager managed to call 112 a day later to ask for help and report her abduction while she was being held by a man from the city of Caracal, in the same province. The recipient is Gheorghe Dinca (66).
• The man raped her and kept her captive in a house. Terrified, the child spoke up to five times with emergency phone officials. In the recordings published this week, we hear officials who doubted the words of the young woman and recriminated with cynicism and sarcasm that did not give more concrete details about his fate.
• The Romanian security forces took 19 hours to enter the house where the child asked for help. The slow reaction of the police has outraged the Romanians.
• A prosecutor also delayed entry to the house until six in the morning on Friday, July 26.
• Upon entering the house, officers arrested a 66-year-old mechanic by profession who, one day later, confessed to killing the child and was responsible for the death of another 18-year-old daughter. missing in April in the region. also by doing the finger.
• The authorities are checking whether the detainee is also responsible for the death of a woman raped and beheaded in the town of Craiova, near Caracal, four years ago.

• Police found an earring of the missing child last week in the defendant's vehicle. In the house, DNA samples of the young woman were also collected and charred human remains belonging to a girl aged 12 to 17, without having yet specified whether they belonged to the family or not. 39, missing child, reported the agency EFE.
• When asked about the location of the child's body, the alleged killer reportedly first reported throwing it into the Olt River. He then contradicted himself by saying that he had thrown him into the Danube, which pbades near Caracal.
• The Romanian prosecutor in charge of the case insisted that the police had no definitive proof of the death of the minor and the other 18-year-old girl. The police teams are still searching for the remains of the two people in the courtyard of the detainee's home and in all Caracal. The family of the child badured that she would not lose hope of finding her alive.
• The mismanagement of the victim's calls has led thousands of Romanians to come out last week to protest the inefficiency of the public administration. During the demonstrations, the government was responsible for the "negligence of the chain" which, according to the local press, would have occurred during the case.
• What has happened has led to an overlap of political accusations between the Social Democratic Party (PSD) government and the country's conservative president, Klaus Iohannis. Iohannis came to suggest that the government was "the moral author of the tragedy" and linked the mistakes of the police and justice to a controversial reform of the penal code by the government that will not even enter not in force after its rejection this week by the Court. Romanian Constitutional.
• waivers The response to the miner's distress calls resulted in several terminations and resignations. The two most important are the Director of the Special Telecommunications Service, on which the Minister is responsible, and the Minister of the Interior, Nicolae Moga. The Minister of Education, Ecaterina Andronescu, was fired this Friday after declaring that she had been taught "at home not to come with a stranger in a car".
• Prime Minister Viorica Dancila responded to the tragedy by proposing a referendum to introduce the "chemical castration" of rapists and pedophiles.