Update 13.59 – Personal files of torturers Alexandru Vişinescu and Gheorghe Enoiu were presented on Monday to President Klaus Iohannis, during the visit he made at a CNSAS deposit of archives from Popesti Leordeni, Mediafax reports.
President Klaus Iohannis was greeted at the CNAS deposit by the President of the Council, Dragos Petrescu and other members in the council’s management. He visited the archives for several tens of minutes.
CNSAS representatives have presented to the president several "compelling” cases in the CNSAS archive. One of these files, called "personal folder" with the header of the Interior Ministry, bore the name Mihai Alexandru Vişinescu on the cover. Another file had the name of Gheorghe Enoiu, also named "personal folder" and the specification "Ministry of Internal Administration.
Klaus Iohannis has also seen a criminal case of an illegal Communist who financed the party and who was trying to connect with family while in detention.
Another document submitted to the head of state was a "black book" about Legionary organization, made during Colonel Claus,under the guise of the Gospel.
Update 10.36 -
President Klaus Iohannis said on Monday after visiting the CNSAS archives in Romania that he wanted to establish a museum of the communism which he said we did not get to know very well.
Surely this archive will contribute to that museum with pieces and concepts. Here's part of our history (Securitate archives ). (...) We did not get to know well enough our recent history, I mean the communist years, "said the President, after visiting the archives of the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS).
Also, Klaus Iohannis said he agreed with the CNAS management to review a memorandum with issues concerning the archive and which they will later meet to resolve.
"Certainly many of these problems can be easily resolved. And here we are dealing with a problem of funding and this is one of the problems that can be solved relatively easily to allow upgrading both of the archive and labor efficiency of the people currently in charge of the archives and researchers who come to study certain test cases, " the president said.
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Initial news 10.08
President Klaus Iohannis today inspects the archive of the Securitate in Popeşti Leordeni, where he has just arrived.
The President said that "the former Securitate Archives is part of the history of our people. The files produced by the political police contain in their pages countless lives of innocent people (...)".
CNSAS has, after Germany and Poland, the third largest archive, taken from the former communist secret services.
"These files are the memory of communism and we have no right to dismiss it. On the contrary, it will make an important contribution to opening a Museum of Communism, I spoke of in Timisoara immediately after the election," Iohannis wrote on Facebook.