Since the end of communism no high-profile politician has ever gone to jail. Everyone had assumed that Mr Ponta’s Social Democrats would protect Mr Nastase, who is a member of the party too.

This is a significant moment for Romania which has often been criticised by the European Union over the last couple of years for being incapable of nailing its corrupt senior politicians. The high level of corruption was the reason why Romania was blocked last year from joining the European Union's Schengen passport-free area. (..)

Whatever Mr Nastase’s fate might be, his case is sending a strong signal. For the first time since the end of communism Romania has proved that it can send powerful politicians behind the bars, no matter how much money or power they have. This is something Romanians have been waiting for since the 1989 revolution.

• Adrian Nastase is not a leftie yet the bullet entered next to the sterno-cleido-mastoidian muscle on the left, following then an ascending trajectory. Unless he was trying hard to make a political statement, it’s hard to imagine the policeman twisting his arm that way.
• It is claimed that the bullet (much like in the JFK case) ricocheted off the thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple) continuing on to the clavicle, where it ricocheted one mo’ time. This is impossible for a 45 calibre bullet from a Smith & Wesson.
• Though bloodied by his wounds, he had his shirt and lingerie changed “because he couldn’t go to the hospital like that” - according to his lawyer, Ion Cazacu. After most likely being turned on each side by the paramedics (or having changed himself), he emerges in fresh clothes and, against all norms of first aid, with a 500 over 300 euro Burberry around his neck.
• Throughout the ordeal, his wife Dana, her sister and everybody else in the house waited on the top floor of the mansion.
• Adrian Nastase waited 11h for surgery where it is discovered he suffered from more serious issues than the gun wound and that “he can have a heart attack any minute”. Dr Mircea Beuran, Chief of Surgery at the Floreasca Hospital said “I cannot confirm whether it was fake or not, because each specialist evaluated according to his specialty. In my field [surgery] I found nothing of interest.”
• In the door frame where the bullet was found there was another, older bullet. Was that from the suicide rehearsal? Did he invite the policemen to count his bullets and they found two big, intact ones?

• Am mai vazut filmul asta, tot la Floreasca unde opereaza niste doctori dubiosi toti penalii si borfasii Romaniei. Stiti cazul Nicolescu, ala de la Pitesti arestat anul trecut, trecut printr-un infarct si imediat dupa aia printr-o campanie pe care a castigat-o foarte vioi. Totusi, nu va sperie putin faza asta care se tot repeta, cu umblat la sentimentul prostimii, cu mimat artistic moartea (infarct, sinucidere, cancerul lui Hayssam). Nu va pune nitel pe ganduri?
• Dreptatea, in cazul popoarelor primitive, usor impresionabile, fara reflexe democratice si cultura institutionala, e ceva relativ. Azi esti calau, maine te scoatem victima. Etica si morala publica sunt ca plastilina. Unele televiziuni de stiri in cardasie cu politicienii cinici fac restul. Spala ce-a mai ramas viu din creier.
• Basescu, esti fericit, intreaba Ponta iesind de la spital. Manipulare ordinara, fara scrupule, la fel mobilizarea fulger a unor copii nefericiti pusi sa agite intrebarea lui Ponta pe niste hartii la televizor. Unde s-a topit respectul procurorului fata de justitie si dreptate? Ce-l face pe Victor Ponta atat de josnic?

• „Groaznica sinucidere din strada Fidelita?ii” se încheie cu logodna domni?oarei Por?ia Popescu.
• Prozatorul Eugen Barbu a fost acuzat, in primul rand de Fanus Neagu, de furt, in romanul sau “Incognito”, din operele unor Andre Malraux (romanul “Speranta”), Mihail Koltsov (“Jurnalul” din Spania) si Konstantin Paustovski (amintirile marelui scriitor rus). Brigada de soc din jurul revistei “Saptamana” a pornit la atac, Barbu s-a plans aproape istoric ca este victima unei cabale urzita de cei de la “Europa Libera” (Monica Lovinesu si Virgil Ierunca) si “oamenii lor”.
• O comisie condusa, din cat tine minte, de respectatul profesor si istoric literar clujean Mircea Zaciu, a cercetat cazul si a ajuns la concluza ca, intr-adevar, Barbu comisese un plagiat incontestabil si absolut scandalos. A urmat un comunicat al Uniunii Scriitorilor, discutii cu Ceausescu, tentative ale politrucilor de a amuti vocile criticilor “patronului”, cum i se spunea lui Barbu. La vremea aceea, Malraux si Paustovski erau decedati. Mort era si jurnalistul Mihail Koltsov, prietenul lui Hemingway (il recunoasteti ca personaj in “Pentru cine bat clopotele”), fusese executat sub acuzatia de spionaj in 1940 (dupa alte surse in 1942). A fost reabilitat in 1956, dupa “Raportul Secret” al lui Hrusciov.