Their excuse - they don't have enough evidence. However, the head of the Prosecutors Office with the Brasov County Court has now given assurances that there is enough evidence to bring the rioters to trial. Local prosecutors have not only come under attack in Brasov. In Craiova a public scandal has been raging over the immoral conduct of two prosecutors, Sorin Ciontu and Relu Serbanescu. In response, the Justice Minister, Valeriu Stoica, has been communicating with the Romanian Chief Prosecutor, Mircea Criste, to develop measures to resolve the scandal and to remedy the poor relationship between prosecutors and police.
Laws protect and punish, hopefully deterring potential offenders.
If society cannot rely on the legal system to protect them, the people will take the law into their own hands. In Brasov, the lack of co-operation between the police and the prosecutors provided ineffective protection for those businessmen most at risk and for the residents of Brasov. The events in Brasov bring into doubt the legitimacy of the state legal system. The hard currency dealers and the businessmen could not depend on the local authorities to protect their rights. Bureaucracy, inefficiency, lack of co-operation and communication, and possibly corruption, are problems that hound the Romanian legal structure.