Румыния

Romania regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Romania's criminal law contains a general penalty-enhancement provision and a substantive offence. Police data and prosecution data also include hate speech offences. The Ministry of Administration and Interior, the police, the Prosecutor's Office and the Superior Council of Magistracy collect hate crime data.

How hate crime data is collected in Румыния

How hate crime data is collected in Румыния

The Romanian Police records all criminal offences in a dedicated database. Romanian investigative police officers have a duty to highlight all aggravating circumstances when registering criminal files that are under investigation. However, there are no designated procedures for recording hate crimes by the police. A working group has been created at the level of the Romanian Police to determine necessary changes to the registration and investigation of hate crimes.

Prosecution files and court files include information about aggravating circumstances. This information is replicated and centralized in the judicial statistics application used by the Ministry of Justice. These data have been collected since 2014.

At the start of 2018, the authorities established a statistical data collection mechanism, which introduced two new forms through which additional data on hate crimes are collected. The new mechanism provides for monitoring the use of the aggravating circumstance found in article 77, letter "h", from the Criminal Code, and of the criminal offences under the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 31/2002, and allows for separate monitoring of all hate crimes in the judicial statistical system ECRIS. The change was made by Annex 19 to Order no. 298/2017 of the Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, and amended Order no. 213/2015 on the organization and functioning of the information system of the Public Ministry.

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HATE CRIMES - OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
2020 Not available Not available Not available
2019 Not available Not available Not available
2018 2 2 33
2017 1 0 8
2016 10 21 50
2015 15 24 59
2014 25 20 Not available
2013 Not available 4 Not available
2012 Not available Not available Not available
2011 Not available Not available Not available
2010 Not available Not available Not available
2009 Not available 1 Not available

HATE INCIDENTS - UNOFFICIAL DATA

In addition to incidents summarized below, this graph includes 1 hate incident reported by Kantor Center as statistics.

Anti-Roma hate crime

Дата ВИД ИНЦИДЕНТА Источник Описание
2020-09 Violent attacks against people
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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2020-04 Violent attacks against people
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2020-04 Violent attacks against people
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Anti-Semitic hate crime

Дата ВИД ИНЦИДЕНТА Источник Описание
2020-09 Attacks against property
Kantor Center
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Disability hate crime

Дата ВИД ИНЦИДЕНТА Источник Описание
2020-02 Violent attacks against people
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

No information is available.

ODIHR'S KEY OBSERVATIONS

ODIHR observes that Romania has not reported statistics on hate crimes to ODIHR since 2018. In addition, ODIHR observes that Romania would benefit from raising the awareness and building the capacity of criminal justice officials in relation to hate crimes.

ODIHR recalls that in the Ministerial Council Decision 9/09, participating States have committed to periodically reporting reliable information and statistics on hate crimes to ODIHR. In the Ministerial Council Decision 9/09, participating States have also committed to introducing or further developing professional training and capacity-building activities for law-enforcement, prosecution and judicial officials dealing with hate crimes. ODIHR stands ready to support Romania in meeting its relevant commitments through the provision of comprehensive resources and tailored assistance in the area of hate crime recording and data collection, as well as further resources and capacity building assistance for its police, prosecution, and judiciary.

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