At What Stage is the Criminal File That Was Opened to Călin Georgescu in 2022: “A Quite Bizarre Exit”

Corneliu Zelea Codreau and Ion Antonescu were presented as “heroes for Romanians” by the current presidential candidate, who said that if “history is mystified, you have nothing to discuss”.

“The Romanian nation lived through Ştefan cel Mare, Mihai Viteazu, Horia, Avram Iancu, Kogălniceanu, Cuza, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Marshal Ion Antonescu and many other heroes. All of them have done both good and less good deeds. But generally an authentic leader is one who tells the truth. And if you don't tell the truth, you can't be a leader. There were good deeds and deeds that I cannot comment on. But historians must prove this, and it is their business, not ours. I can't have opinions about the martyrs, but I can say that they are part of our history,” Călin Georgescu said at the time.

Now, before the Romanians go to the polls in the first round of the presidential elections, the candidate was asked by Gojira, in a podcast that can be found on YouTube, what happened to the criminal case that was opened against Călin Georgescu after the statements in the year 2022.

“At one point you had an appearance, from my point of view quite bizarre, on Antena 3, in which you praised Corneliu Zelea-Codreanu and Marshal Ion Antonescu. They, at one point, pushed Romania, a historical fact, into an alliance with Nazi Germany, in the Second World War. On this basis, a criminal case was filed against you in 2022. What stage is that case at?” said Gojira.

The file was closed

“The file has been closed. There was a case prosecutor who demonstrated that everything I said, word for word, has nothing to do with what was filed,” answered Călin Georgescu. “Is the decision in your favor?” Gojira pressed.

“Of course! I said it was closed. And the second thing I can say is that in none of my statements did I mean and do not mean to make an apology for an extremist movement. I had approaches… my approaches were absolutely through the historical, clean, documentary prism and not in jumping an ideology.

Living in the present, I am a candidate for the presidency and I am sure that I am in a position to say that I am strictly interested in the reality and the situations of Romania which are not few and its problems. I think that is the conclusion of a matter that is better for historians to deal with and not us. At least in this discussion,” the presidential candidate also said.

Then, Gojira interrupted him: “However, your campaign speech includes a strong referential rhetoric to the history of Romania.”

“Categorical. It is natural to do the history of Romania, not history. That's a big difference. History is taught in school today. I advocate for learning the history of the Romanians. It is an important difference”, stated Călin Georgescu.

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