Communist era prison commander to face charges over death of six political prisoners

Описание: (30 Jul 2013) SHOTLIST
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1. Mid of Alexandru Visinescu, former guard at Ramnicu Sarat Prison during the communist regime, stepping out of a shop in Bucharest. UPSOUND (Romanian) "What do you want? Tell me what do you want?'' Tries to strike one of the cameramen
2. Mid of Visnescu talking to reporter, tries to take microphone
3. Mid of Visenescu walking away from reporters as they ask if he feels guilty for the period he ran the prison. Visinescu answers UPSOUND (Romanian) "No"
4. Mid of Visinescu walking to his house: UPSOUND (Romanian) "I fulfilled a function."
5. Close up of Visinescu as he tries to hit a cameraman and cursing him, zoom out to Visinescu opening gate and entering compound where his flat is
6. Close up of file cover with sticker reading (Romanian) "Visinescu File, Dead Political Prisoners."
7. Close up of picture in the file, tilt up to Andrei Muraru, head of the institute investigating communist crimes
8. Wide of Muraru looking through the files
9. Close up of files
10. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Andrei Muraru, head of the institute investigating communist crimes:
"The actions of Alexandru Visinescu, this is his name, he is a retired lieutenant colonel, 87 years old, these actions that I will tell you about can be considered as crimes of aggravated murder with cruelty against many individuals."
11. Cutaway of reporter reading file
12. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Andrei Muraru, head of the institute investigating communist crimes
"We have strong evidence that suggests this commander imposed an extermination regime of the political prisoners that were carrying out their sentences at Ramnicu Sarat. This treatment, extremely tough, led to the illness and after that the death of several prisoners held there."
13. Cutaway of photographer
14. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Andrei Muraru, head of the institute investigating communist crimes
"We want to show that the one who literally decimated the (intellectual - many prisoners were scholars and/or politicians) elite of Romania between wars have a face, they are alive and we can send them to justice."
15. Various of files
STORYLINE
A Romanian committee investigating crimes committed in the name of communism has asked the general prosecutor to bring charges of aggravated murder against a prison commander for the deaths of six political prisoners.
From 1956 to 1963, Lieutenant Colonel Alexandru Visinescu, now 87, ran the notorious Ramnicu Sarat prison where Romania's pre-communist political leaders were incarcerated.
Andrei Muraru, head of the institute investigating communist crimes, said prisoners died from beatings, hunger, a lack of medical treatment and exposure to cold.
It plans to hand a total of 35 files to prosecutors.
"The actions of Alexandru Visinescu (...) can be considered as crimes of aggravated murder with cruelty against many individuals," Muraru told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday.
"We have strong evidence that suggest this commander imposed an extermination regime of the political prisoners that were carrying out their sentences at Ramnicu Sarat," he added.
Visinescu, speaking to journalists near his Bucharest home Tuesday, rejected the claims and said he was only doing his
job.
"I fulfilled a function," he said as he cursed and took a swipe at a cameraman.
Romania had 617,000 political prisoners.
One-fifth of them died.

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