Romania’s high court has returned a decades-long prosecution into the 1989 anti-communist revolt to military prosecutors citing legal flaws. The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) ruled on Thursday to return the case of “the Revolution”, in which several people are being tried, including former president Ion Iliescu and former deputy prime minister Gelu Voican Voiculescu. This means that the investigation will be resumed from scratch. The ICCJ ruled out more evidence, so the work of military prosecutors will be even more difficult.

The “Initiative for Justice” publicly requested the resignation of the head of the Military Prosecutor’s Office, Magistrate Cătălin Ranco Pițu, reports Spotmedia. The association claims that it is the legal and moral duty of the Prosecutor General and the Minister of Justice to establish whether there were “faults, negligence or ill-will in the investigation of  important file from a historical point of view, with which the Public Ministry was invested, following the events of 1989”.

This file has been so delayed that people, especially those who lost loved ones in those troubled days, no longer hope that justice will ever be done, writes Spotmedia.