A Gipsy couple from Romania was arrested on Monday evening by the special Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office, under charges of human trafficking. According to the investigators, the couple had agreed to sell on of their children to a French family, while in France, in the year 2004. The price agreed was 5.000 Euros and the buyers allegedly paid it in installments. While the last part of the sum was being paid, the prosecutors came and arrested the couple. They face a sentence of 20 years in prison and a judge is expected to rule on their arrest warrants on Tuesday.
11 January 2011
Cheeky Gabriela Explains “Shoplifting Incident”
In an exclusive interview on Romanian TV channel PRO TV, on Monday, Cheeky Gabriela gave her account of the “shoplifting” incident that occured in Britain.
“We had had a meeting on Tuesday about a part in a gangster movie in which we (the Cheeky Girls) were to play the leading parts. We got our scripts and then Gabriela went away for a few days to visit her boyfriend. She read the script and, on Friday, she took a break. She went to the store, bought a salad for which she paid and then she realized that she had forgotten to also buy a bottle of apple juice. She took the bottle and then she left”, tells Monica, Gabriela’s sister, interviewed as a guest on PRO TV’s “Happy Hour” talk show.
“I exited the store without realizing what I had done. It struck me that I hadn’t paid when the security guard came running after me. Things got even more serious when the police arrived. I am ashamed, but I didn’t do it on purpose. It was a bottle of juice that costs 2 pounds”, added Gabriela, also a guest at “Happy Hour”.
11 January 2011
UPDATE: Romanian Starlings Died Because of Cold, Claim Forensics
The veterinarian pathologists who examined the dead bodies of the 32 starlings found dead on Saturday morning in Constanţa, Romania, have announced their verdict: the birds died because of the frost. “All the birds were dehydrated after the freezing weekdays that preceded. We found nothing in their stomach or in their goiters. The sterlings showed no symptoms”, stated Romeo Lazăr, the director of the Constanţa Sanitary-Veterinarian Direction. Further tests were to be conducted on Monday. A toxicology and a virus examination should eliminate any doubts about the birds’ deaths. Doctors do no think that the death of the starlings is in any way connected with the case of swine food and mouth disease recently discovered in neighbouring Bulgaria.
Camera Crews: Romania, Moldova, UK and Lebanon 