1. Emil Bobu was a Romanian Communist activist and politician, who served as Interior Minister from 1973 to 1975 and as Labor Minister from 1979 to 1981.
16 Facts About Emil Bobu
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Emil Bobu was an influential figure in the later years of the Communist regime until his downfall during the 1989 Revolution.
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Emil Bobu attended seven grades of primary school and the school for Romanian Railways employees, subsequently becoming a lathe operator at the CFR workshop in Iasi from 1943 to 1945.
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Emil Bobu entered the Union of Communist Youth in 1941 and the Romanian Communist Party in November 1945.
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Emil Bobu studied law at the university level between 1954 and 1957.
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Emil Bobu attended courses at the Stefan Gheorghiu Academy during this period.
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Emil Bobu was Interior Minister from March 1973 to March 1975.
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Emil Bobu was a supplementary member of the PCR's executive political committee from July to November 1974, when he rose to full member, holding the position until the 1989 Revolution.
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Emil Bobu served as Labor Minister and head of the General Trade Union Federation of Romania from January 1979 to February 1981.
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Emil Bobu was a member of the Great National Assembly between 1961 and 1989, variously representing Suceava, Iasi, Dambovita, and Dolj counties.
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In February 1990, the Bucharest Military Tribunal pronounced sentence on four former CPEx members; Emil Bobu, found guilty of complicity in genocide for his role in issuing orders to fire during the Revolution, received a term of life imprisonment and confiscation of all his personal property.
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The state prosecutor filed an appeal in the case of the four, and in April 1993, the Supreme Court of Justice found that Emil Bobu had committed not genocide but complicity in aggravated manslaughter and complicity in attempted aggravated manslaughter.
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Emil Bobu's sentence was thus altered to ten years' imprisonment and five years' loss of political rights.
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Emil Bobu died in 2014 in a Bucharest hospital, as the result of a brain ischemia.
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Emil Bobu was buried in the city's Domnesti Cemetery.
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Emil Bobu married Maria Cristian in 1957; she served as Justice Minister from 1987 until the 1989 revolution.