FLORIAN BICHIR: "Steaua's owner is the expression of the resourceful man, of the cunning person who thinks that he is allowed everything only because he has money."
At the pub television OTV, Gigi Becali announced that his close friends detained in Cluj and who had on them 1.7 millions euro wanted to buy land. Flanked by the righteous Lazarus and Diaconescu, the Pipera thinker, between hysterical and forced laughs, enunciated his life sentence: "Is my money and I do what I want with them. I'm not interested where the money was going. I don't have to justify to anyone about what I'm doing with my money".
Yesterday, Steaua's owner, very sarcastic, toned down the real estate bussines story and said that his people had the money to buy "chocolate and candy"
The case is now well known. The National Anti corruption Direction (DNA) arrested, Wednesday evening, from a restaurant if Cluj, five persons who had on them money from Gigi Becali, money that was supposed of being for the Universitatea Cluj players, if they would not have lost the game with CFR Cluj.
DNA confirmed that it started an penal investigation on more persons, for corruption charges. How the bussines started to be serious, the Pipera megastar bet again on the nationalism card. "Some treators and trashes act on Hungarians order in Romania. They say that they have listened my phone for three months, why haven't they listened Paszkany's phone?" yelled the new Führer from Ilfov. In conclusion, the landowner has a point. He can't make a bussines there, because "pac-pac" the "treators, scums and trashes" appear to hinder him, the great patriot.
Gigi Becali ruined Romanian football with money bags, suitcases, buttons, backgammons with hundreds of thousands of euro pots. The evil spirit of this character who thinks he is Mihai Viteazul, The Warrior of Light, Bear or whatever dreams at night brought football into the mud. It's not only his fault because other clubs took the same direction, but to announce openly that you are capable of anything to win is grotesque. Why don't you buy the trophy at the beginning of the championship, Gigi? Pac-pac, push the buttons, send 17 suitcases and the Righteous Archangel is champion!
Something else is painful. That many Romanians are accepting Gigi Becali's actions. That they think it's natural. "Romanians steal since forever. Nobody defies thefts. Everybody «manages» at their work place. Nobody protests" writes in his latest book "Theft for Romanians", Marius Ghilezan, a journalist retired too early, in order to carry the suitcase of common politicians. Besides Ghilezan's "malice", it must be said that there aren't people of honests and peoples of thieves. Gigi Becali is the expression of this communist and post communist mentality. Of the resourceful man, of the cunning person who thinks that he is allowed everything only because he has money. He is not despised by society, but praised and even admired. The old days morality has died. It was replaced by the honour of being gangster, the mafia dignity.