In a petition, 53 mayors and the president of the Hargita County Council protest against the passive attitude of the authorities, which they demonstrated on July 8, during the vandalism in the military cemetery in Úzvölgy.
According to the information of the Hargita County Council, the petition addressed to the Ministry of the Interior was sent on Friday, and in it they ask the competent authorities to take decisive and immediate measures to identify and hold the perpetrators accountable.
"As long as the Csíkszentmárton municipality owns the property, it is unacceptable that the police and the gendarmerie allow certain people to damage and degrade the Heroes' cemetery, which is an irresponsible, barbaric and not least provocative act.
Mr. Minister, we respectfully ask you to take all the necessary measures to investigate the above-mentioned case in accordance with Act No. 2003/379 on war graves and monuments, and we ask you to take the necessary measures by your presence or indirect instructions so that citizens can responsibly , should treat the holy places and shrines commemorating the dead with respect," they write in the letter addressed to the Minister of the Interior, Marian-Cătălin Predoiu.
"I hope that in the future such immoral and illegal abuses will be preventable in Hargita county. I believe that the law is the same for everyone, regardless of ethnicity.
What happened on July 8 in the cemetery, in the presence of the police and gendarmerie, is unworthy in a state of law. By placing the 150 wooden crosses, I think that they have desecrated the graves and damaged the resting place of those heroes to whom we owe it to preserve their memory," emphasized Csaba Borboly, Chairman of the Hargita County Council.
Based on the council's announcement on Friday, 22 settlements from the Csík region signed the petition, 23 settlements from the Udvarhelyszék region, and 8 settlements from the Gyergyó region joined.
As is well known, organized by the Calea Neamului (Way of the Nation) Association, about a hundred people came to the Úzvölgy military cemetery on July 8 to erect one hundred and fifty wooden crosses instead of the fifty concrete crosses that had been placed illegally before and then removed as a result of a court decision. Neither the police nor the gendarmerie intervened when erecting the wooden crosses.
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