IGSU officials said there was never a discussion to hide the video but that nobody ever specifically asked to see it, according to Libertatea. The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU) organized a press conference on Thursday after Libertatea released the video with the intervention in the Colectiv fire. Arafat posted this during the night, several hours before Libertatea released the video.
He claims he doesn't know anything about this video and that he never received a CV with the video as Libertatea wrote. Raed Arafat wrote on Facebook that he is the target of a denigration campaign by Libertatea and journalist Catalin Tolontan. The Control Body didn't see the video either.ĭSU head Raed Arafat harshly criticized the report at that time calling those who made it amateurs and asking them to rewrite it, according to Libertatea. The new Government's Control Body made a report on the Colectiv club intervention which pretty much reaches the same conclusion, namely that the intervention was poorly coordinated and the authorities improvised. The tragedy led to massive street protests and the fall of the Government led by Victor Ponta, which was replaced with a technocrat cabinet led by Dacian Ciolos. Hundreds of people were in the club that night, of whom 27 lost their lives in the fire and over 30 others died in the following weeks due to the burns or respiratory problems caused by the smoke. The Colectiv club in Bucharest burned down on October 30, 2015, during a concert by local rock band Goodbye to Gravity. The video shows mainly civilians helping the victims while policemen and firefighters seem overwhelmed by the situation. However, in the Colectiv fire case, the video of the intervention was only seen by a handful of higher-rank officers, who decided to hide it as it showed chaos, lack of organization and even lack of preoccupation for the victims, a totally different image than the official one presented by the head of the Emergency Situations Department (DSU) Raed Arafat on the night of the tragedy, the officer told Libertatea.ro. The department also uses the videos to analyze the interventions and find ways to improve them. Major interventions are usually filmed and, when they are successful, short clippings are usually made public. Some patients were sent abroad, and at least three died after they’d left Romania.The video was filmed by an under-officer from the department’s information unit, as is the procedure in such cases. Others died from their injuries and complications in the following days and weeks. The government that was in power three years ago resigned within days of the fire after protesters asserted that official corruption had led to lax safety standards.Ībout half of the fatalities occurred on the night of the fire, with victims succumbing to burns and toxic gases. see things honestly when they don’t work as they should, and how we can make things right.” Dancila later issued a statement saying she held the young victims in her thoughts. Premier Viorica Dancila initially declined to answer a reporter who asked if she had a message for people affected by the fire. Many also expressed anger over what they said were the unhygienic conditions in hospitals that allegedly contributed to some of the deaths.
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The families of the people who died are angry that the ongoing trial of the club’s three owners has stalled and not resulted in any convictions. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis laid a wreath at the same spot earlier in the day, when religious services were held in Bucharest and elsewhere to remember the mostly young victims. “Corruption is in the fiber of these institutions,” Taufik said as others at the vigil wept or stood in silence. Family and friends of those who died denounced the government’s recent finding that 280 of Romania’s estimated 1,200 nightclubs don’t have required fire safety permits.
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