Romanian police chief fired after "teenager killed by kidnapper"

AFP

The Romanian Interior Minister fired the chief of police following the murder of a teenager who had implored the police before her death but who had taken no steps to save her for years. hours.

The 15-year-old girl was kidnapped Wednesday but managed to phone the police three times and gave them details about her whereabouts.

His family said the police did not take his calls seriously, while the police claimed they had trouble finding them

The girl was killed by her kidnapper.

The police found human remains and jewelry that the girl was carrying at her home and arrested a 65-year-old man for questioning in the case.

The police said that the girl, identified only by her first name Alexandra, had been kidnapped while she was checking the pbadage of cars to find her home in Karakal, in the south of the country.

On Thursday morning, she called the police emergency phone three times and told them that the driver of the connected car had been kidnapped, according to an AFP report.

According to the head of the Romanian police, Iwan Buda, Alexandra shouted: "He comes, he comes" before communicating with her.

The authorities indicated that they had difficulties in their initial attempt to follow the connection and to access the site from which they had made contact.

Police identified the house where they were allegedly detained at 3 am on Friday, local media reported.

The police asked the courts to issue a warrant to search the house, although this was not legally required in this case, and waited until morning to enter the house.

The house was only searched 19 hours after the last contact of the girl.

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The police sent the human remains found to badysis, where they suspect that they could return to Alexandra, as well as an 18-year-old girl who was lost in April, reported the ### Reuters Agency.

Interior Minister Nikolai Moga said the police chief had been fired "because of the need for radical action".

"Why did you wait (police)," Acting Attorney Bogdan Leko told a local television channel. The girl, who by all signs could have been saved, was killed. "