Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Corona protest escalates
Right-wingers storm the parliamentary courtyard in Romania
In Romania right-wing extremists are mobilizing to protest against the state’s corona measures. While thousands are demonstrating in front of parliament, a group of radicals violently invades the interior of the building. The security forces are apparently overwhelmed.
In protest against planned Corona measures, dozens of right-wing radicals in the Romanian capital Bucharest overran the security guards of the parliament and penetrated into the courtyard of the building. The Romanian news agency Mediafax reported that vehicles were also damaged. The police initially did not intervene.
Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca called on his Interior Minister Lucian Bode to ensure that state institutions are protected. Meanwhile, thousands of demonstrators marched towards the seat of government. The extreme right-wing opposition party AUR, which campaigns against precautionary measures and against vaccination, called for the protest. The occasion was deliberations in parliament on the planned introduction of 3G rules for access to certain locations.
A police spokesman said that the violent clashes at the parliament building “presented a fait accompli.” Now one wants to increase the number of forces in parliament. According to the Internet newspaper “g4media.ro”, the vehicles of the embassy of the USA and Japan were damaged in the riots.
After a dramatic increase in October, the seven-day incidence in Romania has now been falling continuously for several weeks. On Tuesday it was 26.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, in Germany according to the Robert Koch Institute it was 306.4.