Recorder: Lucian Pahonțu, SPP Chief, Was an Officer in the Security Corps and Participated on 21 Dec 1989 in the Violence at Inter

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General Lucian Pahonțu, the chief of the SPP, was part of the Security Corps before 1989 and was present, as a platoon commander, at the events of the night of December 21, 1989 in the area of the former Intercontinental hotel in Bucharest, where there was a violent repression of the demonstration that began that day, revealed Recorder.ro. The cited publication consulted documents from the Revolution's file, including a statement by Pahonțiu, wh…

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HotNews asked Traian Basescu, the former president of Romania, who appointed Lucian Pahonțu as chief of the SPP, if he ever knew that he participated in the events of 21 December 1989 and 13 June 1990 as officer of the repression forces. According to an investigation published Wednesday by Recorder and undisclosed ...

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The Recorder's publication today shows that Lucian Pahonțu, the SPP leader, was part of Nicolae Ceauşescu's apparatus of repression at the December 1989 Revolution and Ion Iliescu's apparatus of repression at Mineriada in June 1990.

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General Lucian Pahonțu, chief of the SPP, was part of the security forces and was present in the device in the Intercontinental area on the night of December 21, 1989. He also participated in the evacuation of the University Market in June 1990.

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During the Revolution, Pahonțu was part of the repressive forces sent by Nicolae Ceaușescu to suppress the protests that broke out in Bucharest on the afternoon of December 21, 1989, according to a Recorder investigation. Recorder reconstructed the biography of the SPP chief's youth from testimonies and documents: Lucian Pahonțu began his military career as the nephew of a great communist general and served as an officer in the Security Troops…