Former UDMR MP and State Secretary for Minorities Marko Attila, who fled to Hungary and recently returned to the country after being acquitted by a court in the ANRP retrocession case, claimed he left almost eight and a half years ago not because he was guilty , but because of the fear of “injustice”.

He said at a press conference that he had been acquitted in three of the five cases in which he was charged by DNA, while the other two had been dismissed.

• “Eight and a half years are some lost years that, of course, no one will ever pay, but I also don’t want anyone to pay me for these years, because there is no point in not arguing with anyone.
• There were five cases in total, five cases from the famous restitution cases, the ANRP compensations, the famous Bica cases, for example, if you remember, or the Goria Georgescu case. However, it is very important that I was acquitted in all these cases, and acquitted not because I did not commit any criminal act, but because the act itself did not exist,” said Marko Attila, quoted by Agerpres.

“Justice in Romania depends on luck and the judge”

He also said that fortunately in Romania there are still judges “who decide according to the law”, but in many cases “justice depends on luck and the judge”:

• “Unfortunately, I still feel that justice in Romania depends a lot on the luck and personality of the judge. Unfortunately, it is.
• And unfortunately, until the courts follow the law, there will be cases where people will be forced to leave. Not out of fear of the act he might commit, but out of fear of injustice.
• why I left Because in a democracy and rule of law no one is allowed to sit in prison for a second for something they did not do. I would be in the pre-trial detention center for about three or four months, because that’s actually all. I had no final convictions at all, on the contrary, final acquittals were on the line, but in that unfortunate period of justice, I would have spent three or four months in pre-trial detention center, like my other colleagues at that time. . They also received serious compensation from the state for the months spent in prison for nothing,” said Marko Attila.

“Historical moment”

The president of the Covasna district council, Tamas Sandor, who is also the leader of the district organization UDMR, said at the same press conference that Marko Attila “paid dearly for the backroom games of the bilateral state”:

• “From the beginning, I not only said, I also believed that Marco Attila was innocent. We will physically integrate him (Marco Attila. No) in our activities here in Transylvania, which also means UDMR Covasna and maybe also in what UDMR means, our center in Cluj, that is, at the national level.”

Sfantu Gheorghe Mayor Antal Arpad called the reunion with Marco Attila a “historic moment” and said he did not flee the country to avoid prison.

“We said from the first moment that Marco Attila was innocent, and we knew that the time would come when others would say it too, but we did not think that we would have to wait 8 and a half years from the moment he left the country. or if you prefer, 15 years since all this madness began. So for us it is an important and happy moment that he is here with us and we are building the future together,” said Mayor Antal Arpad.

Marko Attila, a former commission member of the National Authority for Property Restitution (ANRP), was sentenced in 2014 along with other commission members to a three-year suspended prison sentence in a property restitution case. Szekely Miko College in Sfantu Gheorghe was decided.

He later traveled to Hungary after DNA filed collective responsibility charges in five other restitution and compensation cases.

Last Thursday, the Supreme Court of Cassation acquitted him with a final verdict in the latest case, in which the Bucharest Court of Appeal of the First Instance sentenced him to five years in prison with execution for abuse. office