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Romania regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. The Ministry of Administration and Interior, the police, the Prosecutor's Office and the Superior Council of Magistracy collect hate crime data.

In 2016, Romania implemented ODIHR's Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) Programme. A specialized hate crime unit was created in the Romanian Police in 2021.

Amendments to the Criminal Code introduced in 2023 set out the constituent elements of hate crimes and the protected grounds therein.

SELECT YEAR

Download the 2012 hate crime report for Romania

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2023	95	252	239
2022	59	129	16
2021	7	54	128
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

About 2012 Data

Data reported to ODIHR refer solely to hate speech offences and criminal discrimination.

Hate crime recorded by police

National developments

The project ‘Mission Possible’ a partnership of the Foundation Resource Centre for Ethno-cultural Diversity, the police Agent’s School and the Crime Research and Prevention Institute, Bucharest trained 28 members of the Police Agents school in Câmpina on preventing and responding to hate crimes.

KEY OBSERVATION

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

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Anti-LGBTI hate crime

ACCEPT reported two cases of physical assault, both resulting in serious injury, including one carried out by a group against seven young women, two of whom were hospitalized.

Transgender Europe (TGEU) reported two physical assaults against transgender people.

Developments

Anti-LGBTI hate crime

Guidelines for policemen to stop hate crimes against LGBT people, produced by the Danish Institute of Human Rights and the ACCEPT Association, were distributed in police stations throughout Bucharest.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

No information is available.