Due to other media scandals and interests, the case of the Terrorist in slippers disappeared as if it never existed.
Is there anything left of it?
It is. A young man is in jail, and has few chances of getting free in a country in which the General Prosecutorâs Office is not responsible in any way of its excesses.
Of all the consequences of the scandal in Buzias, the situation of Florin Lesch seems the most concerning for me. Of all the journalists that treated this case, the only one that raised the issue regarding the situation of the person accused of terrorism was Dan Tapalaga, who works for Cotidianul. I donât agree with the opinion of our younger colleague who sees this as a little piece in a puzzle to serve the secret servicesâ interests. The thing I agree with is the journalistâs thoughts regarding the lack of concern from the press, as well as the one from the civil society regarding the fate of Florin Lesch.
In America, the real terrorists are defended by the press and by the civil society when they are the victims of excesses.
Because America understood a fact that isnât taken into consideration in our poor democratic republic. That fact that there is nothing in this world to allow the straining of the human rights.
If the press and the civil society look the other way when excesses of the institutions that fight against terrorism appear, the premises for the straining of the statutes in other cases appear as well.
Florin Lesch pleaded not guilty in front of the Appeal Court, as well as in front of the High Court of Justice and Cassation.
If they were interested in any way, the statements of Florin Lesch would have made them think a little bit different about certain details and would emphasize the imbecility of the strange of nowadaysâ Romania.
There is an interesting detail in the public statement of the Romanians Secret Services. That detail said there were agents that got inside the young manâs groups of contacts. Many of the precedent gestures of the young man accused of terrorism with gas bottles reveal a person so desperate of becoming a "star" by any means.
This desperation could be considered at the base of his braggadocio about the punishment of the countries that sent troops in Iraq.
According to the Romanian Secret Services, the young man has been under surveillance since the moment in which they found out about his "stunts" and they even infiltrated some agents. How do we know that the RSS undercover agents didnât manipulate Florin Lesch in such a manner to convince him of the possibility of a prank?!
This is a question that might have a positive answer if we take a look on several details that didnât have convincing explanations.
These are:
1. the immediate reasons that determined Ioan Lesch to commit a terrorist attack on a certain day, at a certain hour and in a certain place;
2. the functioning of the so-called infernal device made of a mobile phone and a gas lighter, both tied with tape.
3. the panic attack from which the so-called terrorist suffered in the moment in which he got detained, which is very far from the behavior of a person decided to commit cruel crimes against humanity.
4. the relations of the young man with the radical Islamist networks, relations which the authorities are still to clarify.
The Scandal of the Terrorist in Slippers passed. He is in prison for at least one year. What if this man is really innocent?!