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Notwithstanding its peaceful and positive nature, this cultural project was confronted with a deplorable, aggressive reaction from an organized group of employees of the Roşia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC), acting during their working hours and most of them wearing the working clothes with the RMGC logo and company name. Thus, last Friday, June 15 (!)- [1] - around 2.30 PM, about 30 - 40 RMGC employees attacked the participants to the workshop, organizers and artists. Violent cries, hustling and threats – “we’ll break your neck” – were compellingly scattered by the RMGC employees to the artists attending the workshop and especially to the organizers, members of Alburnus Maior and ARA. The incident was eventually stopped more than half an hour later, after the arrival of the police and a crew of riot police, called by one of the organizers of the workshop. After the incident, the participants were watched by the riot police for a few hours more.
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