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- Title
AN UNCLEAR POLITICAL ASSASSINATION: BARBU CATARGIU, 1862 - HISTORICAL AND MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECTS.
- Authors
STOLNICI, Constantin Bălăceanu; Buda, Octavian
- Abstract
Assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons." To carry out an assassination is "to murder (a usually prominent person) by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety (that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition), from the wish to form some kind of "relationship" with a public figure, or from the desire (or at least the willingness) to be killed or commit suicide in the act. One of the most dramatic political assassinations in Romania was undoubtedly that of Barbu Catargiu of June 8, 1862, the first of its kind in the history of modern Romania. It occurred amid tensions between the leftist political reformers of the National Liberal Party and those who promoted a traditional conservative way, led by prime minister Barbu Catargiu. The following paper deals with the historical and forensic consequences of this assassination.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; ASSASSINATION; FORENSIC sciences; ASSASSINS; CATARGIU, Barbu; POLITICAL reform; POLITICAL parties
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Forensic Science, 2012, Vol 79, Issue 1, p907
- ISSN
2069-2617
- Publication type
Article