Stuart Ramsay says report on arms traffickers in Romania is real

Stuart Ramsay (Sky News) tells critics on Romania story: “Nobody paid (…) Weapons real”

Newsroom 10/08/2016 | 18:43

The chief correspondent of Sky News, Stuart Ramsay, reacted on Twitter following a torrent of critics aimed at him and the British TV station, after prosecutors in Romania claimed that the story of weapons’ traffickers in the country was fake.

Ramsay, who met with the alleged traffickers, claimed in the investigation that the dealers would not have had problems to sell the weapons to terrorists if they paid a good price.

“Ha! Calm down everyone. Story is true. Nobody paid. Nobody scripted. Weapons real. Arrests happening. Govt embarrassed. Deal with it,” Ramsay wrote on his Twitter account.

Romanians took to Twitter and Facebook to express their anger at the report, after the head of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), Daniel Horodniceanu, said that the story in the report seemed to have been made up by the British journalists.

The DIICOT detained the Romanians that appeared in the video allegedly showing the meeting between Ramsay’s team and the traffickers. The fixer in this case said that he though the British journalists were working on a documentary.