The Ministry of Justice is „fully” involved and committed to the effort to build legislation that meets the standards of civilisation, honesty and an axiology of non-discrimination and respect for the rights of all minorities, minister Radu Marinescu stated on Thursday, at the ceremony marking the European Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust against the Roma, which he attended alongside president Nicusor Dan and foreign affairs ministers Oana Toiu.

„Today the Ministry of Justice is present to commemorate an immense injustice, today the Ministry of Justice wants memory to become the fundamental value on which the rule of law and the Romania of tomorrow is built. Today we must all remember the immense, unjust sacrifice in the darkness of our continent’s history that sent hundreds of thousands of members of the Roma community to their deaths, along with millions of sacrificed people from the Jewish people and tens of millions of other civilians, who died without guilt in the immense injustice that war represents,” the minister said.

According to him, norms must be developed that protect minorities and no longer allow discrimination.

„The Ministry of Justice is fully involved and fully committed to the effort of building legislation at the standards of civilisation, honesty and in an axiology of non-discrimination and respect for the rights of all minorities. The Ministry of Justice conveys to the Prosecutor’s Offices, to those who must apply the law that no difference should be tolerated, that, respecting fundamental rights and freedoms, the presumption of innocence and the entire functionality of a Justice in a state governed by law, we must, equally, be very firm and very efficient in no longer tolerating extremism on our land,” Marinescu highlighted.

He underscored that these sacrifices should not be repeated. „Romania is also to blame, in this context, for the sacrifices of the Roma community that took place on our territory, and this obliges us all the more to say never again. May God rest those who fell so unjustly! May God enlighten us to never allow this to happen again,” the minister said.

AGERPRES