The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Teoctist, will be heard by the commission of inquiry into the anti-Communist insurrection in December 1989. “The Patriarch explained the spokeswoman of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Simona Frolu will be heard as head of the Orthodox Church and not as a witness”. The Patriarch will not be summoned to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, but will receive General Dan Voinea, who is heading the official inquiry. The Public Prosecutor’s Office recently decided to re-open the investigation into the uprising in December 1989, which led to the fall of veteran dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The re-opening of the case has been strongly urged by numerous associations acting as the mouthpiece of those who had participated in the events in question. In the view of many, 15 years after the revolution, “justice has not yet been done”.
