“I am innocent,” were the first words of a man from Dolj, whom the police mistook for one of the criminals, a businessman from Sibiu. Law enforcement officers pounced on Laurentiu Lăcătusu, took him to a hearing, and then released him. Police released a terse statement that said there were “substantial indications” and then that there was “no incontrovertible evidence” to take precautionary measures. According to the media, there was a confusion of names in the middle.

“When I came home from work, two civilians grabbed me here (in front of the house – ed.). They rolled me on the ground, punched me in the mouth, kicked me. They beat me… I come home from work to be beaten by the police?” the man told Digi 24 journalists.

What did the police say to him?

“Where are you from? And where are you going? Home? We are from the police, get in the car. They were in plainclothes. Sir, wait, I’m getting in the car, but you don’t have an ID? What ID, get in the car. And then they started drag me along the ground,” said Laketusu.

The man’s wife called his home after seeing people circling the house. She witnessed the arrest scene.

“I shouted at the top of my lungs for the neighbors to come out because I thought they were thieves. I shouted, “Hurry up, neighbor, because he’s killing Laurentius.” When the police were there,” she said.

Now the man wants to claim damages for what happened to him.

A man was arrested on Thursday evening as a suspect in the case of the murder of a businessman from Sibiu. Later he was released. According to the police, checks and hearings did not provide “undoubted evidence” that would lead to the selection of a preventive measure.

“Regarding this man, there were given and substantiated indications that he was one of the 3 suspects in the crimes of murder and aggravated robbery committed on November 6 of this year in the city of Sibiu, which was also indicated by several witnesses in the case. file . From the checks carried out before that date and after the hearing of the person who was brought to the headquarters of the IPJ in Sibiu, no indisputable evidence was obtained for the application of a preventive measure against him. We are continuing the investigation to confirm all the evidence, to ascertain precisely the actual situation and the nature of his involvement in the commission of the act within the radius of the municipality of Sibiu. Investigations in this case are ongoing,” IPJ Sibiu reports, according to Turnul Sfatului.

A film about the murder of Adrian Kreiner, a businessman from Sibiu

On Thursday, the police and the prosecutor presented a film of the murder of Sibiu businessman Adrian Kreiner.

• 04.11.2023 5 suspects (4 men and a woman) left the area of ​​Dumbravica, Timiş County, with two cars belonging to two suspects. The car was left in the radius of the municipality of Deva, Hunedoara district, with the intention that it would be a spare car for a further trip, with which he would not enter the radius of the city of Sibiu.
• They arrived in Sibiu with another car driven by one of the suspects, a suspect who was not involved in the crime, after which they arrived at the Promenada Mall Șelimbăr parking lot around 5:30 p.m.
• After 3 of them did a little shopping and the other 2 waited in the car, around 18:00 they all went to Doamna Stanca Street, where the suspect rented an apartment for 3 nights.
• After taking possession of the rented apartment from the owner, the suspect and the driver left the city of Sibiu in the car they came in, leaving the three suspects in the rented apartment. They stayed in the apartment until approximately 00:00 on 05.11.2023, when they went on foot towards Moldovyanu Street, where the victim lived.
• Around 00:30, three suspects jumped over the fence and entered a non-residential building from n. 11, located opposite the victim’s house, and then went up to the attic of the building, using the side stairs. From that moment until the night of November 6, 2023, the suspects watched the victim’s house at various intervals, and there were also periods when they left the building to go get various food products.
• On the morning of November 6, 2023, around 2:20 a.m., three suspects left the bridge of the building, jumped over the fence of the property and approached the fence of the victim’s residence, two of them pulled out a metal element from the fence and held back. in the yard, and the third remained outside, watching what was happening outside the house as well as on the street.
• Having entered the victim’s yard, the two suspects unscrewed the perimeter lighting bulbs, opened the house’s garage window, which was rolled down, and entered the victim’s garage around 02:38. From the garage, the suspects went directly to the house, where on the first floor, in the living room, there was the victim, who was probably sleeping on the couch.
• At home, the victim’s hands and feet were tied tightly in a boat position so that any movement of any limb would cause self-tightening, after which they were left on the ground in an “Arbatachar-style binding.” . This is a method of tying up the victim, in which a traumatic shock quickly occurs with the interruption of blood flow, which leads to paralysis. Arbatachari tying is a form of torture that causes severe pain and is used to force the victim to reveal where they keep money or valuables. Leaving the house, after the committed crime, the suspects covered the victim’s body and head with a blanket from the couch where she was sleeping.
• The suspects were surprised by the victim’s daughter who was on the floor of the house, two of the three men approached where the victim’s daughter was and at gunpoint asked her to say in English where her father hid the money.
• After she gave the attackers the money she had in her wallet (€40 and about 100 lei), one of the attackers threatened her with a gun, asking her several times where the money was. At this time, the second intruder, noticing several valuable watches in plain view in the dressing room, took them and put them in a bag, also rummaging in the drawers of the bedroom. The suspects left the victim’s house and yard, fleeing through the displaced lattice of the fence.
• On 06.11.2023 at 03:01 IPJ Sibiu via SNUAU 112 was informed by the concubine of the victim that unknown persons broke into the building located in Sibiu on Moldovianu street no. 4, Sibiu county, where they lived together, using acts of violence against the injured person who was on the first floor of the house. The first police team arrived at the scene within 2 minutes, providing first aid to the victim and requesting support from SAJ Sibiu.
• After committing the act, the suspects returned on 06.11.2023, around 04.20, to the rented apartment and left the city of Sibiu by taxi on the same day, around 07.20, the trip was made to the city of Dewa, Hunedoara county, where they had a car. The suspects then moved to the area of ​​Dumbravica, Timiş County, to the house of the suspect who brought them to Sibiu.
• On the evening of 07.11.2023, when it became known about the death of the victim, 2 suspects and the suspect left the country, currently, search measures are being conducted for the third suspect, about whom there is data. and indications that they are on the territory of Romania.