Romania

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 Romania

How hate crime data is collected in Romania

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.

Access more information at the Legislation Online website Legislationline TANDIS Access more information at the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System (TANDIS) website

OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
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

INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES

Anti-Roma hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2019-04 Violent attacks against people
European Roma Rights Center (ERRC)
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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2019-03 Violent attacks against people
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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Anti-Semitic hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2019-04 Attacks against property
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

No information is available.

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that Romania's law enforcement agencies have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.