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Vera Renczi (dubbed the Black Widow, Mrs. Poison or Chatelaine of Berkerekul), [1] [2] was a claimed Romanian serial killer who was charged with poisoning 35 individuals including her two husbands, multiple lovers, and her son with arsenic during the 1920s.
There are conflicting accounts of what caused Stelescu's dissidence. According to the Legion's version (published much later by Codreanu's successor, Horia Sima) Stelescu was motivated by envy of Codreanu, and had even plotted to assassinate him; moreover, through his wife's relatives, he had made contact with political operators close to King Carol II, who, as the foremost opponent of the ...
Codreanu noted that, given the opposition the Guard faced from the state, other political parties, and the media, the Legionnaires had made "the decision to embrace death. The 'death squad' is the expression of this determination, shared by all Legionnaires in the country. It means that these youths are willing to accept death. They are willing ...
Around 9,000 members of the Legionnaires' movement were sentenced to prison. The Legionnaires who led the antisemitic movement in Romania had fallen and never regained power. However, the movement continued even without them, although it was set back for a while, as the atrocities of the Bucharest pogrom gradually became known to the Romanian ...
Bucharest, Romania: 4: Hădăreni riots: 20 September 1993: Hădăreni, Mureș County, Romania: 3: 2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting: 5 March 2012: Bucharest, Romania: 5: A 51-year old man killed 2 people and injured another 8 people in a salon in Bucharest. Gheorghe Dinca killings: 25 July 2019: Caracal, Romania: 2: A 65-year old man is ...
The Jilava massacre [1] took place during the night of November 26, 1940, at Jilava Prison, near Bucharest, Romania.Sixty-four political detainees were killed by the Iron Guard (Legion), with further high-profile assassinations in the immediate aftermath.
This is a list of people executed in Romania. The list includes judicial executions carried out on the territory of present-day Romania , whether by that state or its antecedents. Earlier jurisdictions
According to American journalist R. G. Waldeck, who was present in Romania in 1940–1941, the violent killing of Codreanu only served to cement his popularity and arouse interest in his cause. She wrote: "To the Rumanian people the Capitano [sic, Căpitanul] remained a saint and a martyr and the apostle of a better Rumania. Even skeptical ones ...