The murderous bureaucrats from Crevedia; the victims opposed

The Crevedia case could have been avoided, but the authorities did not want to; a deliberate assassination took place here. Thus, the Crevedia disaster, from the end of last week, gave us a new complete picture of what a failed state means. Only a week after the employees of the Traffic Police turned a blind eye to a drugged young man, who then scattered on the road, in the town of 2 Mai, a group of eight young people, causing two deaths, the explosions took place in Crevedia, in the premises of a decommissioned LPG stations only on paper.

Two dead and 56 injured, 12 of them in serious condition, and of these only six intubated patients, following the disaster in Dâmboviţa county. Some of the patients in serious condition were sent, after the stabilization of the medical situation, by military planes to hospitals in Belgium, Austria, Germany and Norway.

Most of the injured from the explosions were from the ranks of firefighters, policemen and gendarmes who were in Crevedia to extinguish the fire. It is about 43 people from among the rescuers. People who were sent to intervene, without an assessment of the situation, of the high risk of new explosions, and who were in the situation of the victims in Mihăileşti, on May 24, 2004, when a shot filled with 20 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded on DN2 (E85). Then there were also victims among the journalists present at the scene, members of a team of the Antena 1 TV trust losing their lives. In Crevedia, some of the journalists present at the scene suffered minor injuries, due to the strong flow generated by the second explosion.

The chaos of the intervention in Crevedia had only one positive point: the evacuation of 3,000 citizens of the locality, to avoid a real tragedy in case the situation had completely escaped the control of the firefighters.

Why are we talking about a failed state? Because one of the two deceased persons - husband and wife - submitted, in the last two years, several complaints to the state institutions regarding the illegal operation of the LPG station in Crevedia owned by the son of the mayor of Caracal. However, all complaints remained unanswered.

Just as Alexandra Măceşanu's calls to 112 went unanswered in July 2019, which led to her murder - according to the final sentence of May 30, 2023 given by the Craiova Court of Appeal, which sentenced Gheorghe Dincă to 30 years of prison for the rape and murder of Alexandra Măceşanu and Luiza Melencu.

The non-involvement of some state institutions has led, over the last eight years, to the tragedies at Colectiv, Caracal, 2 Mai, Crevedia. To which can be added the fires from the pandemic at the ATI wards of the following medical units: the Clinical Emergency Hospital in Piatra Neamţ, the Matei Balş Hospital in Bucharest and the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Constanta. Or what happened before the Collective, on August 16, 2010, when the premature section at the Giuleşti Maternity Hospital was engulfed in a fire. And on top of that, we also add the recent scandal in Voluntari, where several people lost their lives in the asylums of horror.

Regardless of whether we are talking about right-wing or left-wing governments, about local elected officials belonging to one political party or another, we have the same ineffectiveness of state institutions. The officials with control duties from the inspectorates for emergency situations in the territory, from the county directorates of public health, from the town halls, from the local police, from the national police did not do their job... or maybe in some cases they were not allowed to exercise their duties by interested persons from the locality management or even from the political class.

During this time, the governors and parliamentarians talk to us about the social contract, in which the citizens contribute monthly with taxes and fees so that the state can protect us from such situations. In fact, so that the employees of state institutions can exercise their duties for which they are paid from the money collected from taxes and fees paid by citizens and companies.

From the above situation, we note that the state did not fulfill its obligation stipulated in the social contract. Under these conditions, citizens have the right, as in any joint contract regulated by the Civil Code, to terminate this contract and stop paying taxes and fees to the state budget?

The governors, the political class, experts from the state apparatus and even some specialists from the private sector and civil society say no, because we would thus leave the state without the necessary finances, without the oxygen it needs.

The state, in the absence of taxes collected from citizens and companies, would be left without air, as Alexandra Ivanov was left in the hospital in Botoşani and no doctor took into account her cry: "I have no air!".

However, unlike Alexandra's helplessness, the state has at its disposal the necessary levers to sanction all those who would like the termination of the social contract and would refuse to pay any more taxes and fees: they would execute them by force.

Who enforces the Romanian state for failure to fulfill not only the obligations of the social contract, but also for the failure to fulfill the constitutional obligations which, since 1991, establish the Government's obligation to ensure citizens a decent standard of living?

The dismissal of some police chiefs - see the May 2 case - or the prosecution of the Crevedia authorities and the Doldurea family from Caracal, the conviction of Gheorghe Dincă, the conviction of the owners of the Colectiv club are not enough, because they all take place post-factum. The obligation that the state must fulfill is ante-factum, that is, it has a preventive role in order to avoid tragedies.

Unfortunately, the Romanian state and the political class are not able to fulfill their assumed obligations, just as the promises from the electoral campaigns were not fulfilled either. And if we talk about the electoral campaign, next year we have scheduled four types of elections: European parliamentary, local, parliamentary and presidential.

Citizens will be promised a different kind of social contract and be offered the Moon from the sky. Who among them will believe that the politicians and the future government will respect the obligations assumed in 2024?