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Former president Ion Iliescu sent again to trial in the Mineriad file

April 10, 2025

   Former president Ion Iliescu and former prime minister Petre Roman were sent to trial by the General Prosecutor's Office in the June 1990 Mineriad [miners' riot - editor's note] case, for committing crimes against humanity.In the same case, former deputy prime minister Gelu-Voican Voiculescu, former SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service) director Virgil Magureanu, Adrian Sarbu (former chief of staff of Petre Roman), Miron Cozma (former leader of the miners from Valea Jiului), General (retired) Vasile Dobrinoiu (former commander of the Higher Military School of Officers of the Ministry of the Interior) and Colonel (retired) Peter Petre (former commander of Military Unit 0575 Magurele, belonging to the Ministry of the Interior) were also referred to justice.At the age of 95, Ion Iliescu was previously sent to trial in this case along with the other defendants in 2017, but the courts ordered the case to be returned to the Military Prosecutor's Office, for the investigation to be restarted from scratch.

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