{"id":6519,"date":"2025-08-28T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:00:42","slug":"go-back-to-your-country-romanian-man-detained-over-attack-on-foreign-delivery-worker-in-bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6519","title":{"rendered":"“Go back to your country”: Romanian man detained over attack on foreign delivery worker in Bucharest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A foreign food delivery worker was attacked in Bucharest by a 20-year-old man who struck him in the face while shouting that he was an \u201cinvader\u201d and demanding he return to his country. The case drew wide public attention after former police officer Marian Godin\u0103 shared a video of the incident on Facebook (see below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The incident, which took place on the evening of August 26 in Bucharest’s District 2, was filmed by the attacker himself but ended when an off-duty police officer stepped in and restrained him. A judge has since ordered the suspect\u2019s pre-trial detention for 30 days.<\/p>\n

The victim sustained minor injuries requiring up to two days of medical care, according to the Prosecutor\u2019s Office attached to the District 2 Court. Biziday.ro<\/a> reported that the man attacked was a citizen of Bangladesh, but Marian Godin\u0103 said he is from Nepal.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the assault was racially motivated, noting the suspect acted with the intent of forcing the victim to leave Romania.<\/p>\n\n

Bucharest Police confirmed the intervention of the officer, who belongs to the city\u2019s 7th Precinct and happened to witness the attack, as reported by News.ro<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe officer intervened promptly and efficiently. The suspect, who tried to flee, was immediately caught and restrained,\u201d police said in a statement, adding that uniformed colleagues later arrived to assist. Authorities praised the intervention as an example of \u201ccivic spirit and professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The assault comes against a backdrop of heightened anti-immigrant rhetoric in Romanian politics. Just days earlier, AUR vice president Dan Tanas\u0103 wrote on Facebook that Romanians should refuse food deliveries handled by workers from Africa or Asia. The post was denounced by civil society groups, and Godin\u0103 said he had filed a criminal complaint<\/a> accusing Tanas\u0103 of inciting discrimination.<\/p>\n

In response to the incident, Tanas\u0103 rejected claims that his posts may have encouraged the attack. In a new statement<\/a>, he accused media of exaggerating his influence, saying: \u201cI am glad to see that, for some journalists, Dan Tanas\u0103 is such a powerful force that he could instantly generate incidents on the streets of Bucharest. If I had that power, I would use it to build hospitals in every city, highways across the Carpathians, and decent salaries for Romanians.\u201d<\/p>\n

He argued that violence in Romanian cities stems from what he called \u201cfailed government policies,\u201d not his remarks, and insisted his position was about protecting Romanians\u2019 safety, not targeting people based on origin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not remain silent when Romanians are humiliated in their own country,\u201d he said, adding that he will continue to oppose what he described as government plans to turn Romania into a \u201ccheap labor colony.\u201d<\/p>\n

irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n

(Photo source: V<\/a>iorel Margineanu\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A foreign food delivery worker was attacked in Bucharest by a 20-year-old man who struck him in the face while shouting that he was an \u201cinvader\u201d and demanding he return to his country. The case drew wide public attention after former police officer Marian Godin\u0103 shared a video of the incident on Facebook (see below). […]<\/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-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","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=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}