Romania detained six people who would be intended to testify the government and force NATO to leave, a few months after the elections were nullified on suspicions of Russian interference.
Romania authorities announced on Thursday the arrest of six suspects of planning a blow with the “help of agents of a foreign power, located in both Romania and the Russian Federation.”
The group will have acted with the objective of establishing a paramilitary militiatestify the Romanian government and withdraw the country from NATO. According to the prosecutors responsible for the case, the plan also included the imposition of a new constitution.
Installing a new government with “a sage advice, an elders and local committees’ counsel,” where group members would take places, would be in the plans.
Two of the suspects will have traveled to Moscow in January and met with coup supporters. The Romanian intelligence service ensures that the two actively asked the support of officers from the Russian Federation Embassy. ”
One of the detainees is Theodor’s advicea reformed general of 101 yearsnegation of the Holocaust and admirer of the fascist leadership of Romania during World War II. Theodoru will previously have referred to the current government as “an organized system to steal the country.”
Tensions between Romania and Russia
The arrests occur a day after Bucharest has expelled two Russian government representatives, accused of conspiring with the candidate for ultra -right to the Romanian presidency, Calin Georgescu. Diplomats, an Armed Forces officer and his deputy will have kept contact with the alleged responsible for organizing the coup, according to the SRI.
From the elections in November last year, but the results were after accusations of Russian interference in the elections. The politician faces investigations on suspicion of “inciting actions against the constitutional order”, but denies any connection with Russia.
