Smoke screen at the police

"Happy Easter, you stateless!" – two young men shouted this in Romanian
("Paste fericit, bozgorule!") when attacking an ethnic Hungarian in
Kolozsvár/Cluj in the dawn of the second day of Easter, 2005 – reported
Transylvanian daily, Krónika. "Bozgor /stateless/" is the hostile Romanian
term referring to the native ethnic Hungarian population of Romania.

Twenty-seven years old Z. T. was closing down a club in the city center,
while his colleague was trying to catch a taxi, when he got hit, then
stabbed in the head from behind. His tail of hair saved his life.

His colleague and himself started to chase the 17-20 years old aggressors
when a police patrol appeared and checked their identities. When the
victim tried to tell what had happened, one of the policemen suggested him
to go to the emergency hospital. When trying to explain the situation
again, one of the policemen harshly pushed off T. Z.'s colleague,
shouting: "Get out of here!" Then, the two left the spot in the direction
of the emergency, while the police were talking to the aggressors.

"They did not draw up proceeding, they did not even listen to me. I do not
know what happened then" – said the victim.

To the inquiry of Krónika reporter if the local police recorded the
incident of the night from 27 March to 28 March 2005 in front of the
downtown club, police spokesman Adrian Marian asked if the reporter had
thought of the "homicide attempt"? Then he added that they knew about the
incident, but he could not tell any details because the file had been
forwarded to the prosecution. Violeta Treistaru prosecution spokeswoman
could not however find the file.

To a second inquiry, police spokesman Adrian Marian surprisingly asked if
the newspaper reporter was sure that something had happened on the
aforementioned date. When the reporter was referring to the declarations
of the victim and the eyewitness, the spokesman requested written
questions regarding the inquiry.

Police commander Marcel Bontidean did not know about the incident. "If
there was such an incident, I would know about it." – declared the
commander.

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