Nationalist Romanian organizations will come to celebrate in Saint George (Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy) on the 1st of December and they are already agressively promoting their event. Mihai Tîrnoveanu, notorious for his extreme anti-Hungarian attitude, the leader of “Calea Neamului” (translated as the “Path of the Nation”, referring to the Romanian nation) is recruiting participants on his Facebook page for the above-mentioned event, which will be organized together with “Frăția Ortodoxă” (translated as the “Orthodox Brotherhood”), “Mișcarea Națională” (translated as the “National Movement”) and “Noua Dreaptă” (translated as “The New Right”).
It is not the first time this happens. Over the last years they have been doing this over and over again. Going to a peaceful place where everyone minds their business, provoking and humiliating people with agressive anti-Hungarian slogans and chants. Sadly, the authorities never stopped them.
Tîrnoveanu claimed that they are fully concentrating on bringing as many people as possible to this great celebration in Saint George on the 1st of December. They are planning to raise the Romanian flag together in the heart of the country, in order to show resistance at least on the National Holiday of Romania to the Hungarian political sphere, which, according to them, intends to establish an ethnic-based territorial autonomy in this region.
The leader of “Calea Neamului” in Covasna County explained in his Facebook post that they will respond with their presence to the call of their “Romanian brothers and sisters” and they will show solidarity with the Romanians living here, so that “the heart of the country would not have to beat alone among those with different blood and faith”.
The anti-Hungarian members of the above-mentioned Romanian organizations marched in Saint George on the 1st of December several times in previous years, chanting xenophobic and nationalist slogans and inciting against the Hungarian community.
Erika Benkő, director of the Mikó Imre Minority Rights Legal Services Assistance, commented on the incident by pointing out that: “I condemn it, because I think that it harms the balanced and harmonious ethnic relations, it serves to create hatred and tension, not the peaceful coexistence between the communities. I hope that the authorities will take adequate actions, because such primitive and hurtful nationalism has no place in a European state.”
(Photo: Albert Levente)