More than 27,000 people had signed by Wednesday evening a petition launched by Declic the day before, calling for the dismissal of Labor Minister Marius Budai and Family Minister Gabriela Firea over the scandal of incredible cruelty in three orphanages. in Voluntara and Ilfov, where elderly and disabled people were beaten, starved, kept with wounds to the bones and filled with feces. Protests are also announced for Thursday evening and Saturday at Piața Victoriei.

Petition “Get out of Budai and Fiera!” initiated by Declic has so far gathered more than 27,000 people, the signatories demanded “the immediate dismissal of the Minister of Labor Marius Budai and the Minister of the Family Gabriela Firea”, who “knew about the horrors in the homes for the elderly and remained silent”.

“We don’t want to be ruled by some monsters”

Text of the petition initiated by Declic:

• “Behind a private business that also has public funding is a chain of corruption that reaches Gabriela Firea.
• One of the centers was controlled by Stefan Godey, Gabriela Firea’s former driver during her tenure as mayor. Another center was controlled by Ligia Gheorghe, a former adviser to Gabriela Firea. Gabriela Firea’s sister, Nela Vica Andris, was the head of the agency responsible for inspections at the centers.
• In addition, acts of brutality occurred even in the town of Voluntari, where Florentin Pandele is the mayor.
• The Minister of Labor was informed about the situation in Voluntar. Buletin de București and the Center for Media Investigations discovered that no later than January 17, 2022, the Ministry of Labor had clear information on the ill-treatment suffered by beneficiaries from one of the three “camps” in Ilfov. Instead of taking responsibility, Gabriela Firea and Marius Budai are trying to blame someone else.
• It is clear that they have nothing to do at the head of two ministries whose priority should be to protect and help the vulnerable. Instead, real networks have been created under them that exploit the suffering of the sick.”
• Firea and Budai must go! Now!”.

Protest in Piața Victoriei, Thursday, at 19.00

Deklich also announced the organization of a protest at Piața Victoriei on Thursday from 19:00, demanding the resignation of ministers Marius Budai and Gabriela Firea:

• “They knew, they all knew. And he could stop the unspeakable cruelty of the Asylum of Horrors. But they kept silent, and now they are working hard, their goal is to shut everything up. We cannot be silent, we cannot sit at home.”

A protest on Victory Square has been announced for Saturday: “Punish the tormentors of the elderly!”

Also, the “Corruption” community announced the organization of a protest on Saturday, July 15, at Piața Victoriei with the call: “Punish the tormentors of the elderly! Gabriela Firea resigns! Marius Budai resigns!”.

The start of the protest is scheduled for 18.00.

• “THE TORTURE OF 100 ELDERLY PEOPLE IS THE RESULT OF ENDLESS FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN PSD AND ORGANIZED CRIME.
• Gabriela Firea (Minister), her husband Florentin Pandele (Mayor of Voluntari, the city where the abuses took place) and Marius Budai (Minister) have direct links to criminal groups.
• The state institutions that monitored what was happening in the asylums (DGASPC and AJPIS) supported criminal groups. These institutions are subordinated to the Ministry of Family, Youth and Equal Opportunities (Gabriela Firea) and the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity (Marius Budai).
• Some of those involved have already been arrested (Stefan Godei, Firea’s friend and former member of the Social Democratic Youth) or removed from office (Ligia Gheorghe, the mother of a little girl whose godmother is Gabriela Firea).
• However, the people with political power – Gabriela Firea, Marius Budai and Florentin Pandele – remain untouched. Romanian Prime Minister and PSD President Marcel Čolacu is not taking any measures to punish members of his own government.
• ON JULY 15 AT 18:00, WE ARE GOING TO VICTORIA SQUARE TO SHOW THAT WE DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE MOST VULNERABLE IN SOCIETY ARE OPULATED, AND WE WANT THE PERPETRATORS TO BE PUNISHED!”, the organizers wrote on the event’s Facebook page. .

It will be recalled that there was no resignation from the top in the whole scandal over the incredible abuse suffered by the elderly and disabled patients at the three shelters in Voluntari and Afumaka.

Labor Minister Marius Budai said that his resignation in connection with the scandal regarding the horror shelters in Ilfov is “irrelevant”. After the journalist came back and asked him if he had even thought for a second about resigning, Marius Budai replied curtly: “Thank you very much for the question.”

Voluntary Town Hall, Ministry of Labor (District Agency of Payments and Social Inspection of Ilfov, National Administration of Payments and Social Inspection, National Administration for the Protection of Children’s Rights and Adoption, National Administration for the Protection of the Rights of People with Disabilities), Ministry of Health (Department of Health Ilfov), the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ilfov County Police Inspectorate, Emergency Situations Inspectorate), the Ministry of the Environment (Environmental Protection), as well as other state institutions had on In the table, no later than January 17, 2022, details of ill-treatment, to which the beneficiaries from one of the three “camps” in Ilfov were subjected, wrote the Center for Media Investigations and the Bulletin de Bucharest, the two publications from which the investigation was launched in the case of the horrors of the three shelters in Voluntar and Ilfov.