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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.
Stelescu (front row, left) with Codreanu by his side during an Iron Guard rally in 1933. Mihai Stelescu (1907 – July 16, 1936) was a Romanian political activist. Biography
Oliviu Beldeanu , lead participant in the 1955 seizure of the Romanian embassy in Bern, February 18, 1960; Ioanid Gang, group of five bank robbers, 1960; Gheorghe Arsenescu, anti-communist resistance fighter, May 29, 1962; Ion Rîmaru, serial killer, October 23, 1971; Gheorghe Ștefănescu, businessman convicted of economic crimes, December 14 ...
Also in 1949, Romania began the collectivization of agriculture, with Răutu called in for ideological support. His articles in Scînteia produced definitions of chiaburi (the Romanian version of kulaks , or wealthy peasants), which prioritized their status as employers of farmhands and owners of business, rather than the surface of land they ...
On 1 March 1990, Colonel Gică Popa, who had presided over the trial and been promoted to general, was found dead in his office. His death was ruled a suicide. [39] The Ceaușescus were the last people to be executed in Romania before the abolition of capital punishment on 7 January 1990. [40]
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 ...
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 suspected to kill 2 minor girls. Săpoca Hospital massacre: 18 August 2019: Săpoca, Buzău County, Romania: 7: A 38-year-old man hospitalised at The ...
An estimated 60,000 people died of the plague in the two years, 20–30,000 of them in Bucharest, which is a large number, as the city population at the time was about 120,000. According to a church teacher, the church reports say that 20,000 died in Bucharest by January 1814 (excluding those buried in backyards), while the personal doctor of ...