{"id":4026,"date":"2025-03-06T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:00:52","slug":"court-upholds-judicial-control-for-romanian-far-right-politician-calin-georgescu-in-ongoing-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4026","title":{"rendered":"Court upholds judicial control for Romanian far-right politician C\u0103lin Georgescu in ongoing investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C\u0103lin Georgescu<\/strong>, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year\u2019s presidential elections, remains under judicial control after a decision made by the District 1 Court on Thursday, March 6. The ruling is final, according to local news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/agerpres.ro\/interne\/2025\/03\/06\/calin-georgescu-ramane-sub-control-judiciar--1428368\" target=\"_blank\">Agerpres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Georgescu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/calin-georgescu-questioned-investigation-romania-feb-2025\" target=\"_blank\">was placed under judicial supervision for 60 days<\/a> roughly a week ago on multiple charges. Investigators\u00a0accuse him\u00a0of incitement to actions against constitutional order, dissemination of false information, repeated false statements (regarding the sources of electoral campaign financing and asset declarations), and involvement in or support of fascist, racist, or xenophobic organizations. He is also accused of publicly promoting individuals guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, as well as advocating for fascist, legionary, racist, or xenophobic ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>The former presidential candidate is accused of orchestrating a destabilization plan for Romania with the help of a larger group led by mercenary leader Hora\u021biu Potra following the Constitutional Court\u2019s annulment of the 2024 presidential elections. He has repeatedly denied the allegations and accused the authorities of trying to keep him from running again in the May elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The judicial control measure includes several restrictions, such as a ban on leaving the country without judicial authorization, and a prohibition on posting any content on social media related to Legionary, fascist, anti-Semitic, racist, or xenophobic ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, the\u00a0European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng-press#%7B%22itemid%22:%5B%22003-8173801-11464587%22%5D%7D\" target=\"_blank\">has unanimously declared<\/a>\u00a0inadmissible the case brought by\u00a0C\u0103lin Georgescu regarding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/ccr-annuls-presidential-elections-romania-december-2024\" target=\"_blank\">the annulment of Romania\u2019s 2024 presidential election<\/a>. The decision, issued by a three-judge committee, is final.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source:\u00a0<em>Inquam Photos \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquamphotos.com\/users\/georgecalin\">George\u00a0C\u0103lin<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u0103lin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year\u2019s presidential elections, remains under judicial control after a decision made by the District 1 Court on Thursday, March 6. The ruling is final, according to local news agency Agerpres. Georgescu was placed under judicial supervision for 60 days roughly [&hellip;]<\/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-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","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=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}