In Bucharest (Romania), tens of thousands of people (even 100.000 as estimated by Digi24) went out in Victoriei Square to protest against the government.
They protested against the huge level of corruption that’s happening in Romania and also against the the fact that the politicians are trying to change the penal code. They want to weaken the rule of law so that it will be more suitable for them when they will be in jail.
The demonstration was peaceful until several groups of people started throwing bottles, pavement pieces and other things at the policemen guarding the protest and they fought back with tear gas and a water canon.
Hundreds of people were hurt, some of them even had to go to the hospital.
Here’s more about what happened:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45152175
https://www.romania-insider.com/diaspora-protest-bucharest-live/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/world/europe/romania-protests.html
the gendarmerie just made a statement about last night, saying that their response was justified and proportionate to the protesters’ level of violence. the order to use teargas and water cannons was given by the city’s prefecture. people are now asking why, instead of removing the small number of violent protesters from the crowd and dealing with them separately, the police shot teargas randomly into the otherwise peaceful crowd and beat up people who had their hands up.
some of the psd politicians are already expressing their support for the gendarmes and saying their attacks were justified. romania’s president reacted by making a facebook post about how appalled he is and how totally not ok this is. fuck every single one of these people sideways with a police baton.
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