ANOTHER ROMANIAN DRIVES NAIL INTO OWN FOREHEAD OUT OF SOLIDARITY

( Editorial: --> 8685 ) ZAGREB, Oct 15 (Hina) - Another Romanian citizen who illegally entered Croatia with the aim to go further west self-injured himself to avoid deportation. Twenty-two-year-old Ion Schiopu Lescu on Thursday drove a nail into his forehead. He was later taken from a Zagreb shelter to a hospital where he talked to the Romanian consul, the Zagreb police reported. Lescu said he had self-injured himself solely out of solidarity with three other Romanians who inflicted the same injuries to themselves on October 12. Mihail Gologan, 22, Ionel Alupoaiei 20, and Petric Vranceanu, 28, drove nails into their foreheads in an attempt to avoid being deported from Croatia to Romania. Gologan and Alupoaiei suffered light injuries and left Croatia, while Vranceanu, the only one who broke his frontal bone, is still in hospital, the police reported. Some young men from the Zagreb shelter said they believe that by self-injuring themselves they can escape from hospital and head west. (hina) ha jn 151624 MET oct 98