Tanczos Barna. Source photo: Inquam Photos / George Călin
Deputy Prime Minister Tanczos Barna declared, on Saturday, about the moment when he was stabbed in his office, in 2006, when he was in charge of the State Domains Agency, that God sent him back and that it was a moment of balance, but he did not remain with the aftereffects. He also said, about the aggressor, that he forgave him in the courtroom and, although the court said that he had to give him 10,000 euros, he did not ask for the money, writes News.ro.
“Before the incident happened, ANAF, ADS control began. And it was a tough control, I think it was also ordered, political, I also had moments like this. I got over that episode, I survived. I think God sent me back,” said Tanczos Barna to Digi24.
He said he was in the hospital for ten days and underwent two operations. “I was about to die, it was a moment of balance, and when I returned to ADS, the control was almost finished or almost finished, and the leader of that team comes and starts telling me: Sir, what we found and what we are going to do. And I tell him, what I had to suffer, to die, this is perfume. Write what you want, we go to court”, said Tanczos Barna.
“It was a moment of balance, but we were not left with the consequences”, the deputy prime minister of UDMR also declared.
Asked if he forgave the aggressor, Tanczos Barna said: “Yes, I forgave him in the courtroom. I didn’t even ask him for money. The court said he had to give me 10,000 euros and I never asked him for the money. He appreciated that it also comes from childhood, that education, that courage with which you come from the community and that helps you.”
According to Tanczos Barna, the aggressor said that he is the descendant of Stephen the Great by direct descent and that he is the representative of the peasants of Cotnari.
“He had come to my audience almost every month, he had signed up in the UDMR… He had tied himself with a chain to the statue of I don’t know which one, he had entered the prefecture with gasoline, so it wasn’t his first offense. And then he threatened the vice-president that he would kill him. The colleague left work and didn’t say anything to me that he was a madman in the institution. And when I went down to the secretariat, he put the knife in me, it was a bayonet from the First World War…I’m fine. I do sports, I run, I have absolutely no problem,” the UDMR deputy prime minister said.
Tanczos Barna also said that even when they released him from prison, before the final sentence, he could ask for the protection of the SPP.
“Until I got into CSAT, I never had SPP,” he said.
In March 2006, while he was in charge of the State Lands Agency, Tanczos Barna was stabbed in his office with a bayonet by Alecu Chitaru, a businessman who had requested an opinion.
His attacker was sentenced by the Bucharest Court to 9 years in prison for attempted murder.
