Alexandra Macesanu
DIICOT requests FBI aid for DNA examination in Luiza Melencu case (Caracal file)
The Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has requested the aid of the Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI, US) to conduct a genetic examination that would determine the genetic profile (DNA) in the Luiza Melencu case, but also to establish the psychological/behavioural profile of Gheorghe Dinca, the suspect in the Caracal crimes' case.
Blood stains found in avowed criminal Dinca's house (sources)
Investigators who went to Caracal on Friday, at Gheorghe Dinca's house, the man who admitted having killed teenage girls Alexandra Macesanu and Luiza Melencu, found blood stains and bone fragments, according to some judicial sources. The fragments appear to be of human bones and they were allegedly found in the same area where July 26 searches turned out some more of them.
Second Romanian Minister Loses Job Over Teen Murder
Romanian Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu was fired on Friday for her incautious comment on TV about the murdered 15-year-old who was abducted while hitchhiking in the south of the country last week - when she appeared to suggest the murdered teen was partly responsible for her own death.
Ousted EduMin Andronescu: My intention wasn't to accuse Alexandra
Dismissed Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu stated on Friday that her intention regarding her statement made on a television show, wasn't to accuse Alexandra Macesanu, the 15-year-old teenager who went missing in Caracal, or her parents, for using an illicit means of transportation, but to protect the pupils from criminals.
Caracal Case/Acting IntMin Fifor: Minister's Control Body report, already transposed into decisions
Acting Interior Minister Mihai Fifor stated on Thursday, in regards to the information of the Interior Ministry report according to which deputy of the Olt County Police Inspectorate (IPJ) would have lied his superior in regard to the time when he learned about the disappearance of Alexandra Macesanu, that this aspect is to be established by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and
Pressure Mounts on Romania Govt Over Teen’s Murder
The tardy response of the police in Romania to the distress calls of murdered teen Alexandra Macesanu continues to unleash a wave of indignation and political strife in the country - which some say echoes the response to a deadly nightclub fire in Bucharest in 2015.
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Investigation opens in non-observance of 112 emergency call procedures
Prosecutors with the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) have opened an in rem criminal case regarding the recent Caracal crimes, for negligence in connection with the non-observance of the procedures by the police officer who took the 112 emergency phone calls of 15-year-old Alexandra Macesanu.
Romanian Interior Minister Resigns Over Murdered Teenager Case
Interior Minister Nicolae Moga stepped down on Tuesday amid a storm of criticism of the slow response to the distress calls made to the police emergency number by Alexandra Macesanu, the 15-year-old who was raped and killed last week in Romania.
"Hello, 112!!! I am Alexandra and I want to LIVE"/ Students' protest in memory of teeenager killed in Caracal
"Hello, 112 !!! I am Alexandra and I want to LIVE", "At Caracal Romania failed", "It could have been me.
Anger Over Romanian Teen’s Murder Prompts High-Level Resignation
The director of the Romanian Special Telecommunications Service, TST, Ionel-Sorinel Vasilva, quit on Monday after the institution was accused of not reacting on time to the desperate SOS calls of a teenager who was kidnapped, raped and murdered last week in southern Romania.