January 27, 2024
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Newsroom, 27.01.2024, 13:55
FINES The equivalent of 3.8 million Euros in fines was applied
last year to major supermarket chains in Romania, by the National Authority for
Consumer Protection (ANPC). According to the ANPC president, Horia
Constantinescu, the biggest fines went to Lidl, Profi, Penny and Kaufland, while
Selgros and Metro got the lowest. The Auchan supermarket chain ranks first in
terms of the products banned. In another development, in 2023, the
aforementioned institution registered over 200 thousand complaints. Most of
them were solved but almost 16 thousand proved to be ungrounded.
POLICE The Romanian police have today announced that last year they
staged 187 operative actions, which led to the dismantling of 35 networks
involved in human trafficking and brought to court 465 people facing sexual exploitation
charges. According to the sources, human trafficking is a complex crime with a
significant cross-border impact but half of the investigations carried out last
year were focused on domestic human trafficking. The same methods of recruiting
the victims and forcing them into sex slavery were noticed, such as promises of
well-paid jobs, the well-known lover boy technique to win the victim’s trust
and force them into prostitution, sharing the profit, abuse and emotional
blackmail, seizing documents, threatening with reprisals against the victims
and family members and others. The trafficker’s profile has also remained
unchanged from the previous years. These are mostly Romanian citizens of both
sexes with various ages, and some of them have criminal records.
RUGBY The new headcoach of the Romanian national fifteen, French
David Gerard, has announced a lineup of 32 players for the team’s debut game in
Rugby Europe Championship 2024. According to the Romanian Rugby Federation,
only 26 players will be going to Poland. Romania has been included in Group B
together with Portugal, Belgium and Poland. The Romanians will be up against Poland
in an away game on February 4; then they will have two game on their own turf
against Belgium on February 10 and Portugal on February 17.
HOLOCAUST January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day or
the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. On this day in
1945, the largest Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by
the Soviet Army. The day was decided through a UN resolution in 2005 in order
to commemorate the 6 million European Jews as well as the other millions of
victims of other nationalities killed by the Nazi regime. In a message conveyed
today, Romania’s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu says the Holocaust wound in the
Romanian collective mentality can be healed only through the honest assuming
and promotion of the historic truth, needed remedies in a democratic and
European country. The Prime Minister has underlined the importance of combating
any form of holocaust denial adding that education is an essential way of
progress and cultivation of tolerance.
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