The State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Raed Arafat, said that Galatsia Mayor Ionuts Puceanu should explain to the citizens that they have no reason to worry and panic, referring to the warning of the presence of drones in the counties of Tulcea and Galatia through RO-Alert, but the Office of Emergency Situations did not may not send a notification, thinking that nothing will happen and that it is alarming. “…and if (the risk) is 0.0001, it’s still a risk and the public needs to be aware of it.”

• “It would be much better if the mayor helped us to explain to the citizens that they have nothing to worry about and panic, because it’s still for them. Put yourself in our situation or any situation that there is a risk, and if it is 0.0001, then it is still a risk and the public should be aware of it and take action, whoever wants to. Enter the house, do not sit near the windows, if there is shelter and they want to go to the shelter, go there. It is enough for something to happen once and this whole narrative will change and the world will start wondering why you didn’t warn, why you didn’t say, why you didn’t speak,” Arafat said, according to News .ro. .

The head of the DSU explained the usefulness of RO-ALERT messages.

• “We have the RO-ALERT system, which is still much better than turning on the sirens. But when the army knows, the Ministry of Defense knows that there is a risk, and they inform us, who are civil defense, we can sit down and say, leave it, nothing will happen, leave it, we don’t interfere, it’s better to sit and once something will happen even though we said the risk is very low and then we regret it and wonder why we didn’t send the message. Those who are very anxious can find ways to not put the phone by the bed and put it outside if they really want to risk it and don’t want to hear the messages. But still there are people who understand why we are giving these messages, and we are not giving them to panic the population or to scare them, we are giving them because it is a normal thing when there is a risk,” said Raed Arafat.

He gave an example, namely the notification when one of the citizens is disturbed. The head of the DSU also said that sirens do not come with messages, as is the case with RO-ALERT.

• “We are speaking just as we were delivering messages in mountain areas where there are bears. There are those who sit at home and say that I disturbed them, but if they were outside and saw a bear, face to face, two meters away, maybe they would think differently. It’s the same here, it’s about risk management and messaging to inform the public. And this is our role, we cannot change it. The alternative to RO-ALRT is that we had to reach for the sirens, it would have been a lot more panicky. why Because sirens don’t come with messages, they don’t come with anything, you hear that the siren has gone off, but you don’t know why it’s going off. At least at RO-ALRT, we relay, explain, and then you can follow the messages of what’s going on. So this situation, we’re sorry, it’s a risk that exists and it has to be managed in this way,” Arafat said.

Ionuc Puceanu, the mayor of Galatza, said that he did not feel the need to send a Ro-Alert message, as happened on Friday night, when the population was warned about the possible fall of objects from the airspace, in the context of the war in Ukraine. . PSD leader Galatsi said he was not scared and that such information would only be useful if we were “in a state of war”.

Deployment of forces in Galatasaray

MApN said on Saturday morning that the Romanian army’s radar surveillance system had indicated a possible unauthorized intrusion into the national airspace, with the signal being detected en route to the city of Galati.

On Friday evening, a Ro-Alert message was issued for settlements in the entire northern part of Tulcea County and the border area of ​​Galati County, with which people were warned about the possible fall of objects from the airspace and recommended: shelter

Several crews from the ISU, IPJ, gendarmerie, army and border police searched the Dimitrie Kantemir district on the outskirts of Galatza on Saturday morning after a person called 112 on Friday evening and reported hearing a loud noise. explosion in this area, reports Agerpres.