Cornelia Cozonac

Affiliated media: Center of Investigative Journalism, Director

Incident date: January 12, 2022

Attack type:

• Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: JFJ Expert

Location: Moldova, Chisinau

Additional information:

On his Facebook page, former politician and businessman Cristian Rizea, who was sentenced to prison in Romania for corruption and is hiding in Moldova, insulted journalist Cornelia Cozonac by calling her a «parachute» (an insult sometimes used in Romanian to refer to prostitutes). He also said that she is a «meat loaf» and that the center she heads is a «center of criminal journalists». He repeated these insinuations on his YouTube channel as well.