Investigators had not determined last night the type of explosive device that was detonated on Wednesday evening at the Jean Monet High School in the Capita. They could not find the motive or the authors of the attack, either.
Police and prosecutors yesterday continued investigations and found the grenade pin somewhere among the residential buildings surrounding the high school, 50 metres away from the place of the blast. The investigators specified two other hypotheses were also being considered: terror intimidation to create panic and confusion of person or building.
PM Adrian Nastase had a one-hour meeting with Interior minister Ioan Rus to discuss the progress of investigations. “The state institutions in charge with the public order and security have to be more careful and vigilant and realise there are many lunatics out there who, for satanic rituals or for any other reasons related to their personal life, may resort to bomb attacks, such as the one at the Jean Monet High School on Wednesday. I hope the gendarmes will stay less often inside schools to keep warm”, Nastase said.
President Ion Iliescu yesterday said special steps needed to be taken against the mob clans as the incident at the high school “looks like” it was caused by gang feuds.
The investigators are leaning towards the mob feud version, as the most seriously injured student is Nicolae Ciuraru’s daughter. Two members of Ciuraru’s gang were apprehended by the police over the last thirty days on charges of traffic in counterfeit bills. Judicial sources told Mediafax Ciuraru was among the people to have answered the investigators’ questions.
The explosion at the Jean Monet High School brought the school security issue up again, with the leaders of the Education Ministry instructing school districts to take steps to revise the internal regulations of the schools.
Also yesterday, the Bucharest district mayors decided to take special security measures around schools and high schools, therefore completing the orders of the Education Ministry. The 3rd District mayor Eugen Plesca, a retired army major, which has once served in the Special Anti-Terrorism Combat Unit (USLA) is convinced the blast in front of the Jean Monet High School was a gang feud.
“In my opinion as an anti-terrorist fighter, the MO of those reckless people looks very much like a gang feud. This, however, should give us something to think about, and act on, because innocent children are the victims. Such hoodlum behaviour must never occur again”, Plesca specified. Children’s protection was one of the issues to be addressed in other schools across the country.
In addition, due to the close proximity of the Jean Monet High School to the residence of the chief of State and to other state and private institutions, the Security and Protection Service has taken the necessary steps required by such situations, that is “occurrence of an incident involving an explosive blast in close proximity to the residence of a state dignitary”.



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