Deforestation on the piece returned to the IOR – November 22, 2024 / Photo: HotNews.ro/Catiușa Ivanov
A member of the citizen movement “Here is a forest / here could be a forest” accuses that he was attacked, on Saturday evening, with tear gas sprays by those who coordinate the action to cut trees in the area retreat of the country. IOR Park. However, police say the environmental activist also used tear gas spray.
“We have guards in the IOR, from morning to evening, even at night, not to cut the plane trees and call the police that the cuts have started. There are also some thuja on the edges”, Andreea David, from ” Here is a forest / here could be a forest,” he told HotNews.ro.
Action of intimidation against those who want to ensure that the trees in the IOR are not cut even the other days, says Andreea David.
“The other day a colleague was in the field, he was alone, he just started filming how he cut himself and was blown away by the tenant of the field, that’s how he showed up a month and a half ago, he was breaking out. he sheltered him, pushed him, kicked him in the stomach,” he says.
The moment of conflict tonight:
“Now they came and two people were guarding us. We also filmed. He sprayed one of the guards. Now the guard is in the hospital,” according to Andrea David.
What the Police say
HotNews.ro also requested information from the Capital Police about the incident.
“On November 30, 2024, the police officers of the General Directorate of Police of the Municipality of Bucharest – Police Section 12 were notified, calling 112, regarding the fact that, in the back area of a park, in the Sector 3, a man had been sprayed to another person.
The police officers of the subunit went to the scene urgently and found that the reported aspects are confirmed,” said the Police.
However, the police say there is “reasonable suspicion that an environmental activist may have sprayed a man who was cutting a tree in the meeting area of a park in Sector 3 with an irritating substance.”
“In this context, the man in question would have taken the spray from the hand of the environmental activist and sprayed it on him. The latter was transported to a hospital unit for medical assistance. We mention the fact that at this moment the activities are dynamic”, according to the police, which announces that at this moment the investigation continues.
If there were hundreds of trees in the IOR Park in 2021, they have disappeared. Only in the last few weeks, more than 130 trees from the 12 hectares returned to the IOR park were cut down without a release permit, according to data provided by the Capital City Hall at the request of HotNews.ro.
