Jadranka Vukašinović in Bucharest, Photo: Private archive
Montenegrin citizen Jadranka Vukasinovic A visit to Bucharest, the capital and largest city of Romania, will be remembered for the honesty and unusual gesture of two Romanian women – Katalin i Emilia, who returned her lost bag with all her documents and money, intact.
Vukašinović told “Vijesti” that she and her sister traveled to Romania at the end of last month to visit their nephew, who had a baby.
Enchanted by the charms of Bucharest, she points out, she couldn’t help but visit the famous Herastro Park, whose number of visitors and size delighted her. Vukašinović explains that at that moment she had “everything a person can take with them.”
“We went for a walk in Herastro Park on July 1. It is, by the way, a very famous, visited and huge park – as big as our Preko Morača. We went for a walk with a baby and a stroller. I had a purse with my wallet in it, as well as all my personal documents. I also had a payment card, a driver’s license, and a considerable amount of money with me. I also had a phone that didn’t have a code, as well as the key to our friends’ apartment where we were staying. I sat down to rest with my family on a bench and forgot my purse there,” said Vukašinović.
After a half-hour walk, the interviewee of “Vijesti”, as she pointed out, noticed that her purse was missing. She explains that the distance between the apartment where they were staying and the park was great, and that she ran back to the bench where she had forgotten her purse. The fear that she had lost all her personal documents and money disappeared the moment she found the two women.
“I found the bag and found a mother and daughter – Katalina and Emilia. The bag was between the two of them. I cried with happiness. I offered them money to buy chocolate or coffee. There was no trick. They refused and told me to check if everything was in the bag.”
She emphasized that the promenade was “packed,” and that she was surprised that everything remained in place – untouched. She does not hide that she was so excited that, as she claims, “she could not come to her senses.”
“They didn’t want to accept the money. They just told me to light a candle in a church. Before I found the bag, they opened it and found a phone that didn’t have a code. They called the last contact I had spoken to – my nephew Nemanja, who lives in Podgorica. They told him in English that they had found my personal belongings. Then he called his brother in Bucharest and told him, but we didn’t hear the incoming call from him because of the noise in the park,” explained Vukašinović.
As she said, she thanked them several times and said that she would “do it again through their media.”
“I asked my daughter-in-law to connect me with the media there, but I was unable to, because it is a big city. I want to mention these two women so that only our Montenegro can see how brotherly Romania helped us and how honest people they turned out to be. A considerable sum of euros was at stake. I wanted this to be published because of friendly and beautiful relations,” said Vukašinović.
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