Alina Gorghiu, the Romanian Minister of Justice, criticized the protests and efforts to legalize drugs in the country. In a recent statement, Gorghiu emphasized the danger associated with drug trafficking and the need to maintain harsh punishments for high-risk drug traffickers.
At the same time, Alina Gorghiu also spoke about the importance of maintaining sentences for high-risk drug traffickers, such as cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and others, in prison without the possibility of obtaining suspended sentences. She pointed out that the phenomenon of drug trafficking is growing, and Europe is faced with the constant emergence of new drug substances generated by traffickers.
“I will never understand those who are protesting today and taking steps to legalize drugs in Romania. I saw a protest action where I was the person being cursed mainly because I want high-risk drug dealers to stop getting suspended sentences and only stay in jail when convicted. Today, it would be a big mistake for the Romanian state to decriminalize certain drug-related crimes.”
At the same time, the Minister of Justice emphasized that it is a big mistake for the Romanian state to decriminalize certain drug-related crimes and that it is essential to maintain adequate legislation to combat this growing phenomenon.
“Because it is a growing phenomenon, because it is a phenomenon very accessible to young people, because in Europe every week new substances are generated in the laboratories of drug traffickers that arrive sooner or later. And in our country, because there is an asymmetric war between drug trafficking and drug traffickers and what the Romanian state can do with limited resources. And then I come to what I did and I will tell you what is the perspective that the Romanian state has. First, we generated healthier legislation.
Once we are talking about the May 2nd Law, which mainly deals with high-risk drug traffickers, talking about cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, oxy, codeine and so on. These traffickers, when they receive the sentence from the court, will receive it and serve it in the penitentiary system, locked up, without being able to benefit from any kind of circumstances, so that they get a suspended sentence. Not the high-risk drug trafficker, who put these traffickers in danger,” said Alina Goghiu in the “Dialogurile Puterii” podcast, moderated by Manuela Dumitru.
Alina Gorghiu: Romania is now bankrupt in terms of infrastructure for addictions
Alina Gorghiu also emphasized the fact that Romania is deficient in infrastructure for the treatment of addiction and that a broader and more humane approach to this problem is needed. For this reason, the Minister of Justice developed together with other liberal colleagues a project that proposes the establishment of eight therapy centers for the treatment of addiction in each region, in order to provide the public services necessary for them.
“The life of many young people in Romania. His fate can only be in prison. 2. I look at consumers as sick people. I don’t look at them as criminals. I look at them as beneficiaries of public services that the Romanian state must provide. And here there is a project in the Parliament, a project that I developed, initiated with many liberal colleagues, passed the Senate. He was saying that we need to establish eight addiction treatment centers in each region. Romania is now bankrupt in terms of infrastructure for addictions.”
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