The Collapse of Omertà: A Multidimensional Analysis of Four Cases of Authority Abuse in Romania.

In recent years, the Romanian public sphere has witnessed an unprecedented phenomenon: the collapse of prominent public figures – Cristian Andrei (psychiatrist), Ion Duvac (university professor of psychology, member of the Romanian College of Psychologists' Ethics Commission), Alfred Bulai (university professor of sociology, SNSPA), and Marian Simion (NLP trainer, public personality) – under the weight of accusations of sexual and psychological abuse. These cases have become symbols of a systemic mechanism that operated undisturbed for decades: the protection of the aggressor through status and the complicit silence of institutions.