{"id":11131,"date":"2026-07-17T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11131"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:00:37","slug":"romanian-mep-diana-sosoaca-and-former-husband-indicted-for-deprivation-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11131","title":{"rendered":"Romanian MEP Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 and former husband indicted for deprivation of liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romanian prosecutors from the General Prosecutor\u2019s Office indicted MEP and leader of far-right SOS Romania party, Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103<\/strong>, and her former husband, Silvestru \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103, in a case concerning the deprivation of liberty of several Italian journalists dating back to 2021.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the incident took place in December 2021, when Italian journalists from Rai Uno claimed they had been held against their will after an interview with Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103, who was a senator at the time, and her husband.<\/p>\n

As a result, the pair was officially charged with four counts of unlawful deprivation of liberty.<\/p>\n

“On December 10, 2021, the two defendants unlawfully deprived four people (three injured parties and one witness) of their liberty after they had been invited to the defendant’s law office in Bucharest for the purpose of conducting an interview,” according to prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, cited by Digi24<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the same source, the unlawful confinement resulted from Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103’s dissatisfaction with the questions asked by the Rai Uno journalist and “not at all from the commission of any criminal offenses by the injured parties.”<\/p>\n

The prosecutors also stated that Silvestru \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103 “used acts of violence against one of the injured parties, striking the person with his fists in the shoulder and arm area and tearing the protective face mask off the victim’s face.”<\/p>\n

Back in 2025, Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u01ce said the case was politically driven<\/a> and aimed at silencing her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the Criminal Code, the offense of unlawful deprivation of liberty is punishable by imprisonment from one to seven years. The case will be tried before the High Court of Cassation and Justice, led by the controversial judge Lia Savonea.<\/p>\n

The General Prosecutor’s Office emphasized that members of Parliament and senators “may be investigated and brought to trial for acts that are unrelated to the votes or political opinions expressed in the exercise of their mandate.”<\/p>\n

In April of this year, the European Parliament lifted MEP Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103\u2019s immunity<\/a> at the request of the Romanian Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, opening her to investigation for deprivation of liberty and other offenses.<\/p>\n

Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103, well known for her pro-Russian opinions<\/a>, is also under criminal investigation in another case involving alleged offenses related to Legionary propaganda<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: Inquam Photos|Alexandru Nechez)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romanian prosecutors from the General Prosecutor\u2019s Office indicted MEP and leader of far-right SOS Romania party, Diana \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103, and her former husband, Silvestru \u0218o\u0219oac\u0103, in a case concerning the deprivation of liberty of several Italian journalists dating back to 2021. Specifically, the incident took place in December 2021, when Italian journalists from Rai Uno claimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}