2006 Ferentari Riot - Outcome

Outcome

Realitatea TV was presenting a news broadcast about the riot at the same time with the planned show about the latest ranking of the richest Romanians made by the publication "Capital", at which Cristian Tantareanu and Gigi Becali were invited to speak about their wealth. Cristian Tantareanu said the ranking contains the 300 richest Romanians and there are about 300 people protesting, so why shouldn't every one of them help one of the poor people who were protesting. Gigi Becali said he would donate enough money to help all the protesting people, but he doesn't have time to ensure they will work (clean their buildings, etc), as Tantareanu suggested. At that time Becali didn't know how much money this would cost him; he was later informed it was ~€400,000, which he paid.

Becali was criticized for this, as it might be unfair for the ones who only through effort managed to pay the energy bills. Alex Savitescu, said "crime becomes not only understood, accepted, but rewarded".

According to a poll made by students from SNSPA(The National School for Political and Administrative Studies) two days after the protests, if elections where to be held the following Sunday, 93% of people from Zabrauti would go to vote and 70% would vote for Gigi Becali as President, and 55.1% would vote for his party, the PNG. At the meeting where people were thanking him, he said:"Pe mine ma cheama Becali. Cuvintul meu e litera de Evanghelie. Nu o sa pot sa fac toata tara asta, o sa fac toata tara asta cind o sa devin presedinte si o sa ma doara inima de romani"("My name is Becali. My word is as good as the word of the Holy Scripture. I cannot do the same for everyone in this country now but I will do so when I become president and as president I'll feel the grief of the Romanian people").