ALISON MUTLER
„Bucharest Mayor Gabriela Firea has left herself open to accusations of racism after she said the prime minister’s office used to look like “a black people’s bar” when he was deputy mayor of Bucharest.
Firea, who announced this weekend she would seek another term as mayor, made the incendiary remarks about Premier Ludovic Orban, a political rival, in a television interview on Sunday. “Since his days as the deputy mayor, he’d be sitting in his office like it was a black people’s bar (bar de negri), just booze, just cigarettes and disease-ridden people,” sh