(22 Sep 2016) Hundreds of people protested in Bucharest on Thursday against a parliament decision to reject an investigation into the country's former deputy prime minister over the death of a police officer.
Protesters gathered near the parliament building and disrupted traffic for several hours.
The Romanian Senate rejected on Monday the National Anticorruption Directorate's request to prosecute Gabriel Oprea for involuntary manslaughter, after a police officer died while he was escorting the official's motorcade in Bucharest.
According to Romanian law, only the president, the prime minister and the country's two Parliament speakers can use of a police-escorted motorcade.
Other senior officials are allowed to use motorcades only in special circumstances.
However, prosecutors say that Oprea, who also served as interior minister, used motorcades on days he wasn't working, to travel to restaurants, parties and to be taken home, "situations which can't be objectively justified as an emergency."
Members of Parliament can only be investigated with lawmakers' approval, according to Romanian law.
Oprea denied any wrongdoing.
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