According to Pagina de Media, singer Manele Nicolae Šterp, known as Kulice Šterp, has been awarded 100,000 lei in court for non-pecuniary damage by a Romanian TV channel after it published false news about him. The decision is not final.

Last year, Romanian television reported that Nicolae Šterp allegedly killed a person with a car in 2016.

In fact, it would be a confusion of names, and the person convicted in 2020 of murdering a man is not the singer manele, notes clujust.ro, which reported back in 2022 that it was a coincidence of names.

The Hunedoara court ruled that Romania TV and Roxana Chuke, a reporter who wrote about the subject, should jointly pay Kulica Šterp the sum of 100,000 lei as moral damages for “violation of the rights to honor, dignity, reputation and image, rights violated by the published articles and news release,” also writes clujust.ro.

The court ruled that Romanian Television must also pay 20,000 lei, court costs and publish the court’s decision. The decision can be appealed within 30 days.

Kulita Sterp also sued the TV station Antena 1 for the same news broadcast in the news magazine Observator, and the case is still pending.