How did it happen that the 19-year-old boy, who killed two young people on May 2, was released by the police, even though he was stopped before the accident and drugs were found in his car? One explanation, “sources said,” would be that the cops who pulled him over didn’t have a drug test, they would have called to ask, but they didn’t get one. However, even without such a device, the police had legal leverage to stop the boy to test him for drug use. Another question: how did the lack of RCA insurance on the Mercedes cabriolet in which Vlad Pasku drove into a group of eight young people go unnoticed during two police checks?

The tragedy of May 2, in which two students aged 20 and 21 were killed and three other young people were injured, threw the Romanian police, led (from May 2021) by the Inspector General, into a new scandal Benone Matei, under the direct authority of the quaestor Bohdan Despescu, State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The accident revealed shocking details. Vlada Paska was stopped by the police twice – the day before the tragedy, on the filter, and the same night. He was allowed to leave despite drugs being found in his car and the car not having valid RCA insurance.

Unanswered questions

• Why was Vlad Paska released, why were drugs found in his car?
• Why did the two crews that pulled him over ignore the fact that the car had run out of RCA insurance
• What is the reason that only the driver was taken to the police station on May 2, even though he was in the car with two other people, according to the police chief of the Konstanz district, and the drugs were found in the car and not on Vlad Paska?
• What is the legal framework for found drugs?
• When did the police inform the prosecutor’s office in this case?

The Chief of Police of Constanta County held a press conference on Monday, and on Monday, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Mangalia Court, which is handling the case, sent a press release announcing the arrest of the young man, which had been taken the day before. From the statement of the prosecutor’s office, released three days after the accident and after the howl of the press, we learn:

• “On 08.20.2023, the prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office at the Mangalia court formulated a motion for the selection of a preventive measure against the defendant P.M.V., 19 years old, from the city of Bucharest, a person who is in custody, for committing the crimes of intentional murder, intentional bodily harm, and leaving a place adventures provided for by Art. 192 para. (1), (2) and (3), Art. 196 para. (1) and (4) and Art. 338 paragraphs (1) CC with the application of Art. 38 par. (1) of the Criminal Code.
• The indictment of the defendant states that on the morning of August 19, 2023, while under the influence of psychoactive substances, he drove a vehicle on public roads and, entering the city on May 2, hit a group of people. people who were moving along the side of the road. O.A.S. (21 years old) and D.R.M. (20 years old) were killed as a result of the impact, and B.D.D. (18 years old), Tsva (20 years old) and I. were injured. K.L. (20 years old). years). It is also noted that after the accident, the accused left the scene of the accident, later he was found in the radius of the settlement of Vama Viche.
• The first examinations conducted in the case showed the fact that the defendant was under the influence of psychoactive substances.
• In the case, the defendant P.M.V. was placed under preventive arrest for a period of 30 days, starting from August 20, 2023.”

Do the Konstanz police have drug testing machines?

A mixed police-gendarmerie crew, who stopped the young man before he caused the accident, found a pack of cigarettes, a shared cigarette and foil labeled “Bromazepam” and containing four pills in his recovery vehicle. Analyzes conducted after the accident showed that Vlad Pasku used cocaine, amphetamine and methamphetamine, so other types of drugs were found in his car.

Constanta police chief Adrian Gluge claimed that the boy was not checked because, according to the data provided by the police officers who stopped him, “the driver did not show any particular signs of taking psychoactive substances”:

• “According to the police officers who conducted the inspection, the driver did not have any particular signs of drug use at the time.
• Due to the fact that the driver did not undergo a drug test on the night of August 18-19, I ordered a pre-trial investigation of the officer and two agents to determine the presence/absence of offenses.

Instead, the boy was tested for alcohol consumption, the result was 0.

One explanation, “according to sources,” would be that the police officers who pulled him over and released him without a drug test did not have a drug test, they would have called to request such a device, but they did not receive one.

Ziua de Constanța writes that according to available information, the Constanța County Police will only have 15 drug testing machines.

What levers did the Police have to check the young man under the influence of several types of drugs

However, even without such a device, the police had legal leverage to act.

The driver could be taken to the hospital for a blood draw and kept without his license until the next day only after a medical examination, said police officer Marian Godine.

What exactly does the law provide – emergency resolution 195/2002 regarding traffic on public roads:

• (1) The driver’s license is revoked by the traffic police even if the owner could not pass a test to determine the concentration of pure alcohol in exhaled air or a preliminary test for the presence of psychoactive substances in the body, and as a result of a medical examination, clinical signs of recent alcohol consumption were revealed drinks or psychoactive substances, during the procedure for collecting biological samples to determine the level of alcohol in the blood or the use of psychoactive substances, issuing a replacement driver’s license for driving without a driver’s license.
• (2) Withdrawal of a driver’s license is carried out by 8 o’clock in the morning of the next day, but not less than 12 o’clock.
• “I am sure that no drug testing machine was found there, and that is why I believe that the police chiefs, from the small to the big, up to the head of the Romanian police, should be fired.
• Because it is impossible to imagine that in the height of the summer season in a resort that is not famous for the consumption of elderberry juice, the police do not have several drug-testing machines,” wrote Marian Godine on Facebook.

Another detail ignored by the police

The Mercedes convertible in which Vlad Pascu caused the horrific accident did not have valid RCA insurance. However, the “details” were ignored by the two crews who stopped the young man twice.

What happens if you don’t have RCA insurance?

The lack of mandatory RCA insurance can also be detected during a routine check by law enforcement officers, even if you did not violate traffic rules and did not get into an accident. The police can ask you to confirm their opinion any time you are in traffic while driving this car.

Sanctions provided by law:

• fine from 1,000 to 2,000 lei (according to Article 37, paragraph 9 of Law 132/2017 on car insurance);
• keeping the coupon;
• saving license plates.

If more than 3 months have passed since the expiration of the RCA policy, the possibility of registering the car may be suspended.

Vlad Pasku had a driver’s license since May.

A film about the failure of the Romanian police

According to the head of IPJ Constanța, Constantin Adriana Gluge, on the evening of August 19 around 00:40, a man called 112 and reported that a car was driving on DN39 Vama Veche 2 Mai without following the traffic rules.

At 02:40 he was spotted by a joint patrol of the police and gendarmerie on DN39, the driver and passengers were identified, and a shared cigarette and pills in a pack of cigarettes were found in the car, IPJ head Konstanz said in a press release. conferences.

The driver was taken by ambulance to the police station, where he was tested on a breathalyzer – with a zero result, Gluge said, adding that he did not show any particular signs of taking psychoactive substances and was released around 04:30.

At 05:25 there was an accident in which two young people were killed when they were hit by a car driven by a 19-year-old driver.

Adrian Kostiantyn Gluge has been the head of the Konstanz County Police since July 2020, having been given authority in this position for the first time (January 7, 2020 – January 10, 2021). Previously, he headed the police inspectors of Dolj and Breila counties.

Answering a question on Monday at a press conference about the possible dismissal of the head of the IPJ Konstanz, Adrian Constantin Glughe, the Minister of Justice, Katalin Predoyu, said that he would not “hesitate” if it was applied after the checks that he would make the Control Authority in this case:

• “If it becomes necessary as a result of this review, I will not hesitate either for this chief or for other chiefs, but for now I want to wait for this review, I want to work according to the procedure. , in accordance with the law, professionally, so that any decision I make is beyond any criticism and goes to the solution of the problem, not to the palliative.”

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In February 2022, a young man was investigated by DIICOT for unlawful possession of dangerous drugs for personal use after he was caught with “0.68g of cannabis, intended for consumption”.

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The prosecutor’s office ordered the criminal investigation to be stopped, and in January 2023 the Bucharest court upheld the decision.

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