Romania police chief fired over kidnap=slaying of teen girl

By The Associated Press

Posted July 26, 2019 5:29 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

BUCHAREST, Romania — The chief of Romania’s national police has been fired over the handling of the kidnapping of 15-year-old girl, who was raped and killed in the southern city of Caracal.

Interior Minister Nicolae Moga removed Police Chief Ioan Buda late Friday after police took 19 hours to locate the girl, who reportedly called the country’s emergency number three times saying she had been beaten and raped by a man who picked her up in his car as she was hitchhiking to Caracal from a nearby village.

Romanian media reports said the first emergency call was placed shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday. The reports said police finally identified the location where the girl was kept at 3 a.m. Friday but didn’t move in for three more hours because of legal procedures.

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