Gendarmerie colonel Catalin Paraschiv, proposed for brigadier general

Colonel Catalin Paraschiv, who coordinated the intervention of the Special Intervention Brigade of the Gendarmerie during the protest of August 10, was proposed for the rank of one star brigadier general, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI). 

"On May 10 the CSAT (Supreme Council of National Defence) approved the participation of the officer in the exam for switching to the generals' corps, and on October 11 he took and promoted the exam for being granted the rank of one star brigadier general within the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As a result of passing this exam, the proposal of granting the officer the military rank of one star brigadier general was forwarded to the Presidential Administration," according to a MAI briefing. 

Colonel Catalin Paraschiv was heard on September 13, for approximately two hours, by the military prosecutors in the case regarding the gendarmes' intervention during the protest of August 10. 

Upon exiting the Prosecutor's Office, he was asked by journalists if he was indicted. "I was not. I am a witness. I only declared what happened that night and that is all," Paraschiv said. 

Military prosecutors opened an in rem file for the crime of abusive behavior, abuse of office and dereliction of duty for the way the gendarmes intervened during the protest of August 10.