National Press Review, 2 November

The România Liberă re-opens the file on driving licences from Argeş, considering it “one of the biggest failures of justice”.

The article also offers some explanations: out of the solved cases until now, only eight of the fraudulently obtained driving licences have been cancelled, and the rest have remained valid.

From the “400 trials that compromised the case ‘The Underworld of Argeş Driving Licences’”, the daily presents three of them, together with the court’s decisions that made it possible for three VIPs to be able to keep driving.

The Adevărul brings in attention the businesses done at the Bellu Cemetery by the go-betweens who have put up for sale this architectural ensemble by parts.

The undercover journalists of the paper found out that “the underworld from Bellu sells even Pache’s tomb” after they have succeeded in buying, with a discount even, the chapel of the former mayor of the capital, Pache Protopopescu. There are brought into the open both the name of the one who made the transaction, and the steps of the transaction.

This case is not the only one. The publication also writes that other funerary monuments that belonged to some personalities have started disappearing, after having been sold.

“Soccer, backhander, and blood. Handcuffs are next.” it is how the Evenimentul Zilei describes today the performances from the past weeks, held on the stage of the king sport.

To confirm the statement, the publication reminds of the Romanian football leaders Mircea Sandu and Dumitru Dragomir’s hearings at the National Anticorruption Directorate, but also the recent incident at the match between Petrolul and Steaua. In the second case, the publication also finds a possible responsible, about whom it has found out he might be behind the scenarios executed by the brawlers from the tribune.

The Jurnalul Naţional shows testimonies from “The Nuclear Energy Nightmare. Chernobyl”. The journalists managed, with the consent of the Ukrainian Government, to visit the town Pripiat, covered with the passing of years by vegetation and where it is highly probable that one should measure noses with wild boars and wolves.

In this apocalyptic scenery, the journalists have met people too, from whom they found out how life in a radioactive contaminated area is. Their only problem is that they can not practise agriculture anymore.

Translation by: Camelia-Aura Barbu

MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University