A Bucharest court may hand down a verdict on Friday in a case in which former interior minister Gabriel Opria is charged with manslaughter in connection with a 2015 road accident that killed police officer Bohdan Hygina.

On January 31, the Bucharest court postponed the sentencing until February 17.

In May 2018, DNA sued Gabriel Oprea at the High Court of Cassation and Justice, but his case was heard in several courts for procedural reasons, the 1st District Court and then the Bucharest Court.

“On the evening of October 20, 2015, police officer Hygine Bohdan-Cosmin, 28 years old, was involved in a traffic accident on one of the streets of Bucharest, as a result of which he suffered a cranial hemorrhage, the consequences of cranial and facial trauma with a skull fracture, injuries , which caused death. During the accident, the victim Gigină Bohdan-Kosmin was part of the apparatus accompanying Minister Oprya Gabriel, who was driving in front of the moving car, the minister learns. At the time of the accident, Minister Oprea Gabriel was moving to his residence,” DNA reports.

According to DNA, the traffic accident that caused the death of policeman Hygin was the result of the failure of Gabriel Oprea, Petre Mazilu and General MPM Impex SRL to comply with the provisions of the law and the measures prescribed for carrying out certain activities. – the activity of escorting the minister on police roads in the case of Oprea, respectively, the activity of carrying out some road works in the case of the company and its administrator.

According to prosecutors, Gabriel Oprea was the one who imposed, using the conclusion of his position and at his own discretion, giving himself rights not provided for by the legal framework that regulates the escort of high-ranking guests, that the movement was carried out at a very high speed, which contributed to the commission Road accident that led to the death of the victim.