Interior Minister Lucian Bode said, referring to the Chiajna case, where a man held his little girl captive for 28 hours, that the child was never in danger and that she was smiling. Bode specified that the responsible police officer also participated in the negotiations, which ended successfully, to whom he thanked.

• PHOTO. The 5-year-old girl, who was abducted by her father from a house in Kiain, was released after 28 hours / What could have been the impetus for the crisis / How the negotiations went

Lucian Bode said on Digi24 on Friday that the incident in Kjain was not an isolated one, News.ro reports.

“I want to tell you that today the Romanian police encountered two other cases of kidnapping – one in Calarasi, where a father forcibly took a 2-year-old child without the mother’s consent. The minor was taken by his father, they are in the process of establishing guardianship and one in Olt, where the adult took the minor by force and sequestered her in the house. Both cases were well solved by the police,” Bode said, clarifying, however, that the 28-hour negotiations in Ciazna were the longest in the history of the Romanian police.

Asked whether such incidents had become more frequent recently, Bode said there were 25,000 police officers on the field every day.

“I can’t say that this is an increase (…), but here was really a more special case,” said the minister.

According to him, at night, the man risked becoming aggressive and excited, because he saw on television the separation of forces near his house.

Tense moments: “Threat to release gas from three cylinders and blow up the house”

The interior minister revealed that in Kyazha’s case, the negotiators managed to maintain a constant dialogue with the man who kidnapped his child, even if there were tense moments.

“First of all, they managed to conduct an open dialogue with him, and this is only to their credit. There were not only negotiators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there were also other structures of the Romanian state, and I thank them in this way. The fact that in the morning they managed to get her to accept the food they offered the little girl, and instead, after several hours of talking, say: look, look, you and I were honest, we had food for the child. What do you offer us to show that we are open to each other and then he handed over two of the three bottles that we had at home, I gave an example. There were other moments, some even tense,” Bode said.

Lucian Bode recalled the moment when a man threatened to set fire to the bottles he had at home.

“In the morning, my colleagues spoke during today’s press briefing, they talked about the tense moment around four o’clock when he threatened to release gas from three cylinders and blow up the house. He calmed down and on the way I brought negotiators, they brought people from his family, his wife, his mother talked to him, close friends called him and talked practically, and the female lawyer ended up talking to him, brought her friend All these actions were coordinated from the crisis unit of the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police,” the minister added.

“Times when I was on the verge of using force”

When asked if the pregnant policewoman also took part in the negotiations, Lucian Bode confirmed it and wanted to thank her.

“Yes, I can confirm that. The negotiators present made a decision in such a way as to make him talk, to maintain a dialogue, so that the child was constantly in the police’s sight, because we constantly saw the girl, he took her several times to the window, the little girl was smiling, she was not in danger, and this is very important. Even those who took part in the actions were not threatened. Our colleague is not pregnant either, and indeed, as the press surely noticed, she is active. So I salute my colleague who, although she was in this fortunate situation for her, decided to do her job and she did it very well, both she and all those who were with her in this during those 28 hours.” – said the Minister of Internal Affairs.

Lucian Bode added that the authorities were going to use force.

“When all the arguments regarding this component of the negotiations are over, it is obvious that there will be another option, the option of assault, forceful intervention. We had moments in this situation and in this case where we were on the verge of making that decision, but always thinking about the safety of the little girl and those involved in this mission, we decided to proceed with negotiations, and that’s what we did, but we were ready to intervene by force,” said Lucian Bode.

• PHOTO. The 5-year-old girl, who was abducted by her father from a house in Kiain, was released after 28 hours / What could have been the impetus for the crisis / How the negotiations went