A FORGOTTEN CASE OF VIOLATION OF HUMAN DIGNITY (1951-1955): ERALDO PINTORI, ITALIAN DIPLOMATIC OFFICER ON BUCHAREST

Abstract

The study refers to a case still little known in Romania’s contemporary history: the arrest of foreign diplomats in Bucharest in order to ensure the economic and commercial advantages for the Communist regime. It’s about Eraldo Pintori, an  official at the Italian Legation in Bucharest, kidnapped, arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned by the Bucharest regime in order to negotiate with Italy the ownership of the largest Romanian building abroad - the Accademia di Romania in Rome and  obtaining financial and commercial facilities based on the blackmail made with delaying the release of Pintori. It is a serious and obvious case of harm to human dignity in which the political unites with the religious, Pintori being condemned in the  „Process against Vatican Spies”.