Nicolae Ceauşescu is buried in Ghencea

The forensic scientists compared the DNA of the corpse to the DNA of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s son and brother and confirmed that the man buried in the Ghencea cemetery is Nicolae Ceauşescu.

As far as Elena Ceauşescu is regarded, the material to which the sample could have been compared was insufficient. However, the investigations were being focused on Nicolae Ceauşescu because there were much more genetic references, according to the general director of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bucharest.

The corpses of the Ceauşescu spouses have been reburied in the Ghencea cemetery.

In June, the grave of Nicolae Ceauşescu, the ex-communist president of Romania, has been exhumed following his son’s demand for DNA tests.

The family will bear all the expenses regarding the exhumation of the Ceauşescu spouses and the ID tests, expenses that might end up somewhere between 4,000 lei and 5,000 lei, as the demand has been issued by the family, the NIFM director declared to Mediafax.

Valentin Ceauşescu and Mircea Oprean, the son-in-law of the spouses, managed to become owners of the graves in 2009, having the right to ask for the exhumation only after, according to the law, 7 years had passed by.

At first, Valentin Ceauşescu and Mircea Oprean sued the Ministry of National Defense and the Court compelled the latter to indicate the places where the two spouses had been buried.

Translated by: Roxana – Maria Budulan (Chesnoiu)
MA Students, Bucharest University