Adrian Cioroianu, director of the National Library, continued to attack Emilia Sherkan on his Facebook page on Thursday evening after the journalist complained that readers were forced to sit in jackets in the institution’s halls in temperatures of 16.6 degrees.

Choroyana insults Sherkan and accuses her of lying about what was written about the situation in the National Library.

“A message to the woman who seems to have finally found her purpose: Emilia Serkan continues to measure the temperature in the corridors of the National Library with a room thermometer. I don’t want to sound inelegant, but I would like to answer, by virtue of freedom of expression and in the register of Olten humor, that today is still the birthday of the great Marin Sorescu: madam, isn’t a thermometer under your arm helping you more?! Choroyanu starts the attack.

He offers the journalist to hold a conference together, at which they will present their arguments in turn: “If you prove the validity of your statements (signs I received, employees who do not see me because of the library, weeds because of the appearance) BNaR), I will resign and offer in exchange for you (if I’m still as “important” as you say), take over the management of BNaR. But if I prove that you are LYING like a Bolshevik newspaper, including today’s publication, February 29, due to serious and self-serving omissions..”

The performance level continues along the same lines, accusing her of suddenly becoming interested in Mircea Joane after he announced that he might run for president.

• On the same topic: Having entered into a conflict with the journalist Emilia Sherkan, who reproached him for the coldness of the National Library, Adrian Choroianu disclosed the subject of his investigation.

Emilia Serkan in the studio of HotNews.ro Photo: Adi Iacob / HotNews

How the conflict between Adrian Choroyanu and Emilia Sherkan began

Emilia Sherkan spoke on Facebook about the “deserted atmosphere” at the National Library of Romania, where students endure 16 degrees Celsius and 18 degrees outside.

It is 16 degrees in the reading rooms of the National Library

• “In the free reading area, on the first floor, where students usually study or work on various projects, it was 16.6 degrees. The temperature can be seen on the thermometer, which I brought with me from home specifically to see how many degrees it is in the most important library of this country.
• The atmosphere was completely deserted, people were dressed more like those walking the streets in Bucharest today, because I didn’t see anyone with a hood on the street. It was 18 degrees outside today,” the journalist wrote on Facebook.

Due to the cold, only one reading room is open, on the first floor.

• “The activity was moved to the “economy” because this room is located on the west side of the building, where the sun falls and it is warmer than in “literature”, where the temperature does not exceed 13.5 – 14.00 degrees.
• These are the conditions in the “educated Romania” of the emperor, for which the state pays more than 7 million lei to build him a house with two (two!!!) fitness rooms, because one is not enough, but that the state does not find money to heat the building of the National Library .
• Such is the respect in “educated Romania” for study, work, study.
• The workers told me that 80 readers used to visit the reading rooms a day. Many of them were foreign students, used to studying in the library. Today there were about 10 of us. The staff were dressed just like the young people you see in the photos, in thick street clothes. I asked them if they had seen the director of the National Library, Adrian Choroyana, who was passing through the reading rooms to inquire about the situation of the readers and employees of the institution. “Yes, I saw him, but at Digi24, not here,” Serkan said.

Sherkan requests the intervention of the Ministry of Culture after Choroyan’s revelations about Joane

In response, Emilia Sherkan publicly asked the Minister of Culture, Raluka Tsurkan, about the point of view regarding the disclosure of non-public data by Adrian Choroianu:

• “Today, Adrian Cioroianu is doing an incredibly terrible thing: he is disclosing information he received as director of the National Library and making it public, even though this information is not publicly available and not intended to be publicized.
• The point is that I requested to study Mircea Joane’s Ph.D.
• The fact that Adrian Cioroianu is making this information public makes me vulnerable and publicly exposes me, especially since it is sad to know that because of my revelations about plagiarism in the doctoral theses of some politicians or high-ranking people, I have been threatened with death, publicly discredited, but I also was the object of kompromat.
• I publicly ask the Minister of Culture Raluka Tsurkan to express his point of view regarding the disclosure of non-public data by Mr. Choroyan.”