BUCHAREST — When a 15-year-old girl frantically called the emergency services in southern Romania last month to say she’d been kidnapped, beaten, and raped, a regional police chief was put in charge of the case.
RFE/RL: The murky nexus between Romanian criminals, police, and politicians
People hold a banner reading "Romania is killed" as they march in Bucharest July 27, 2019 to commemorate Alexandra, the 15-year-old girl who has been murdered after she telephoned three times to report her own kidnapping. The chief of police has been sacked in Romania after the murder of a 15-year-old girl who telephoned three times to report her own kidnapping.
