UDMR President Kelemen Hunor said Friday night after threats to a journalist by a Hungarian politician that any form of aggression is “unacceptable,” News.ro reports.

“Recently, a journalist from Romania was threatened with murder. Our position has been clear and unchanged for the past 32 years: regardless of who it is, a citizen, a politician, a journalist, any public figure, we consider unacceptable and resolutely reject any aggression against them,” he wrote on Friday. . , on Facebook, Kelemen Hunor.

He states that he expects the same attitude and position from others.

“Because when it comes to verbal aggression, which is often accompanied by physical aggression, there is no room for negotiation! Aggression of any kind cannot be justified. Neither if it is expressed in a narrow circle against a journalist, nor if politicians want to be hanged for demonstrating the Sekelian flag,” Kelemen Hunor also conveyed.

Politician Barna Barta, an MP for the extremist Patria Noastra party based in Sfantu Gheorghe, threatened journalist Boroca Paraszka, editor of Radio Târgu Mureş, calling her a “villain” and saying that “such people should be hanged and expelled from the Hungarian community. “, says the website romania-actualitati.ro.

The Romanian Broadcasting Society considers the comments a serious attack on the basic norms of democracy, the rule of law, statements calling for racial purity are unacceptable in a democratic and tolerant Romania. The police from Mures have reported it themselves and are conducting checks in this case targeting the threat.

And Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke qualified the threats to the journalist of the Public Radio – Redacţia Târgu-Mureş Paraška Boroca as a “serious attack on democratic values”, at the same time asking the competent state institutions to “use their legal powers to protect media representatives”.