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The Romanian police after the Sky News material :the weapons in the images are hunting weapons
The Romanian police announces that the weapons which appear in the images presented by Sky News in the material referring to possible deeds of weapons traffic in Romania are hunting ones, as there are no data according to which they might be smuggled, the police officers say.
‘From the first checking made by the police officers, with the support of the other institutions in the national security system resulted that the model of the weapons presented in the images is from the category of hunting weapons. These types of weapons are legally owned in our country by members of the hunting associations, collectioners, as well as the forestry personnel. Up to now, there were no data obtained to show that the weapons would come as a result of smuggling. At present, the checking goes on to clarify the situation and establish possible breaching of the norms regarding the judicial regime of weapons and ammunitions’ the Romanian Police announces in a press release, saying that at the level of the institution there were checking starting the day the article was presented.
According to the quoted source, as a continuation of the checking there will be used channels of international police cooperation.
The filming broadcast by Sky News shows the meeting between two weapons traffickers who could be Romanians and the journalists team. After months of negotiation the Sky News team says they had been directed to a zone isolated in Romania to meet the members of a group of weapons traffickers.
Sky News tells us how the journalists followed the traffickers in a forest where there was no phone signal and there they stopped on a meadow.
‘Two people beckoned us to follow them. We were searched, our equipment was checked and the phones taken and locked in a car. They took the key from the car. After they opened their boots they showed us the types of weapons available for sale’.
‘We bring them from Ukraine with ammunition, as many as you want’ one of them said and in the filiming they speak about AK47 the most sold weapon in the arsenal of traffickers. ‘ The open borders of the EU mean that weapons such as AK-47 can be easily sent to the buyers in western Europe’ the journalist says.
In the context where the British intelligence services warn with regard to the terrorist attacks in their country of the type of the one in Paris, Sky News announces that they started the investigation after receiving information that the weapons traffickers in the east of Europe have multiplied and sell weapons to anyone.
Valentin Juncan, member in the National Council of the Audiovisual required CAN to notify OFCOM ( the counterpart institution in the UK) in connection with the programme of the British televion Sky News which refers to a possible weapon trafficking in Romania so that they could check the journalist principles.
He explained that the CAN members ‘should notify OFCOM’ with the purpose of requesting the British partners’ to verify if the journalist activity observed the principles of correct information,impartialitiy and presentation of the viewpoints of all the parties involved’ in the programme they broadcast.
‘Taking into consideration the spreading of the programme, the way in which the international media took over the information, I consider that CAN is forced to do that, as Romania’s image is at stake and its credibility’ Jucan said, adding that’ such situations cannot be treated with tolerance, as much as they prove to be false’ .