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On Sunday, 5 February 2017, as of 11.00, in the NTB Painting Hall, General Dan Voinea shall hold the conference with the title The Legal Truth about the Miner Strike of 13 - 15 June 1990.

About the Conference

After the end of last year, when on the occasion of the National Theatre Conferences, prosecutor Dan Voinea was clarifying a part of the unexplained aspects of the Revolution from December 1989, Dan Voinea shall hold a new conference, on 5 February 2017, this time with disclosures about the Miner Strike from 1990. The new information offered by the lecturer to the National Theatre are all the more expected, as in December 2016, the military court was announcing that in the Miner Strike file, several persons were indicted for crimes against humanity, including Ion Iliescu, Virgil Măgureanu or Petre Roman. We would like to recall that General Dan Voinea is the magistrate who handled, beside the Revolution file, also the one of the Miner Strike from 1990. The cause for the tergiversation of investigations in these files is, according to Voinea’s statement, „the politically orchestrated justice, which influenced the solving of the files meant to unmask the crimes of December 89 and of the miner strikes. The same forces which acted punitively in ‘89 also acted on 13-15 June 1990”.

Journalist Ramona Ursu shall also participate in the conference, signing autographs on the volume The Secret Service File. Marian Munteanu and Miron Cozma versus University Square published in 2016. The volume presents in detail the connections with the former Secret Services of Marian Munteanu and Miron Cozma. Price of a volume: 50 RON.

About Gen. Dan Voinea

Dan Voinea (born on 23 July 1950) is a Romanian general and magistrate. He is a military prosecutor since 1982, from 1997 to 2000 he acted as head of the Military Prosecution Service within the Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. In December 1989, when he held the degree of Major at the Military Prosecution Directorate, he was appointed Prosecutor in the trial of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu, where he drafted the accusation based on which the couple was sentenced to death and executed, on 25th December 1989. General Magistrate Voinea is the one who handled two of the major post-December files, the one of the Revolution from December 1989 and of the miners’ strike from 13-15 June 1990. Other handled files include the one for the attack against the „Free Europe” radio station, based in Munich, perpetrated by Carlos the Jackal at the request of Nicolae Ceaușescu, in 1981.

In 2006, Dan Voinea was appointed deputy military prosecutor of the Military Prosecution Service within the Public Prosecutor’s Department. He was proposed by the former Minister of Justice, Monica Macovei, receiving afterwards a unanimously favourable decision from the Superior Council of Magistracy. Until October 2007, he also held the interim position as head of the Military Prosecution Services.

In 2008, the head of the Public Ministry, Laura Kövesi, has requested Voinea’s dismissal from the position of deputy head of the Military Prosecution Service due to a faulty use of the department’s human resources. She accused him of not finishing even after 18 years the files of the Revolution and the miner strikes. Through decrees signed by President Traian Băsescu, on 20 March 2009, General Major Magistrate Dan Voinea was dismissed from the position of deputy prosecutor at the Military Prosecution Service within the Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, and on 1st April he was forced to retire.

In 2009, the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) has rejected Voinea’s request to be rehired as civil prosecutor at the Supreme Court.

Currently, Dan Voinea is a lawyer and lecturer of the „Titu Maiorescu” University.

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu