The history of recent years shows us that the special services in Romania seek to increase their influence and communicate less and less with the citizens and with the institutions that should monitor their activities.

In the absence of effective control mechanisms, the growing power of these structures inevitably breeds abuses, and national security is the perfect umbrella to hide them.

The recorder opens a breach in this hermetic world and has convinced others that it is not worth keeping silent.

“At the end of seven months of documenting — during which I heard countless times, ‘Do you have the courage to stand up to them?’ – we managed to decipher the way of work, with the help of which one of the six special services of Romania brutally uses its power. It is about the DGPI, the special service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which became legendary as “Two and a quarter”, says the Recorder.