It has been investigated for 4 years how the plaque insulting Hungarians appeared in front of the Matthias statue in Kolozsvar

According to nullahategy.hu, the Romanian Prosecutor’s Office has been investigating for 4 years how the bronze plaque insulting Hungarians appeared in front of the Matthias statue in Kolozsvar – daily paper Freedom wrote in its Tuesday’s issue.

The Kolozs County Prosecutor’s Office told the daily newspaper that the county police investigate the case under the direction of the prosecutor. He added: the investigators managed to collect several evidences, but he rejected the more detailed information referring to the interests of the investigation.

The Kolozsvar Matthias sculptural group was unveiled in April 2011 after the restoration jointly supported by the Hungarian and the Romanian government.

A month later, unknown perpetrators placed a bronze plaque with a quote from historian Nicolae Iorga referring to the Romanian origin of Matthias at the pedestal of the statue. Former Kolozsvar mayor Sorin Apostu called the placement of the plaque a historical reparation. As Freedom recalled, former minister of culture Hunor Kelemen, chairman of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) and Balazs Gergely, former vice chairman of National Council of Transylvania (EMNT) filed a report for unauthorized intervention. The Prosecutor’s Office interrogated Balazs Gergely in September 2012, but Hunor Kelemen has not been summoned to hearing so far, nullahategy.hu wrote.

The quote attributed to the Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga “He was victorious in battle, he was only defeated by his own nation in Moldvabanya, when he fought against the invincible Moldva” was first placed on the pedestal of the statue in 1932. The inscription was removed in 1940 after the re-annexation of North Transylvania, but Gheroghe Funar, extreme nationalist mayor of Kolozsvar placed it again in 1992. During the restoration, the original Mathias Rex inscription was placed on the pedestal designed by Janos Fadrusz. The Iorga inscription was placed on the lawn in front of the statues.

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