Romanian K1 champion Daniel Ghita (center) will be in charge with organizing the Vlad the Impaler Patrol (in Romanian - Patrula lui Vlad Tepes), the United Romania Party (PRU) has announced on Sunday.

"You’ll see these young people everywhere, you’ll see them where they are needed, where they can help. They will not carry weapons, maybe they’ll have shovels to help remove the snow or buckets to help during floods, or maybe they’ll just help an old lady cross the street," PRU president Bogdan Diaconu said during the party’s first congress, reports local Mediafax.

He also presented six young people dressed in navy blue uniforms, with the flag on the right side of the chest, with party logo on the sleeve, and marked The Vlad the Impaler Patrol on the back.

Daniel Ghita said that the patrol’s mission would be to make sure that the helpless and the poor would not become victims of the “underworld gangs, robbers, and thieves with diplomas.”

“If the Romanian state won’t defend us, we will defend ourselves,” he added.

The patrol will collaborate with the authorities, the athlete said, but the Vlad the Impaler Patrol will act if the authorities fail to do so.

“The Vlad the Impaler Patrol will be made of Romanians with big hearts who will help their fellow men who are in trouble and need support. We’ll get involved and offer our help in humanitarian crisis, where civic involvement is needed, where the mutual help can make the difference,” Daniel Ghita said.

According to local Stiripesurse.ro, Romanian publicist Dumitru Cornel Vilcu said that he would file a criminal complaint against the United Romania Party. In the complaint, he will ask the abolition of the party because of its idea to set up the Vlad the Impaler Patrol. In his online petition, Vilcu calls the Patrol “a paramilitary group.”

PRU is a nationalist party launched in 2014, which uses Romanian Prince Vlad Tepes' portrait on its logo.

Daniel Ghita, 34, is one of the world's top heavyweight kickboxers. He has fought in the Lokal Kombat fighting circuit in Romania and then in the better-known K-1 and Glory. He also worked as a security agent assigned to protect Romania's President, from 2001 until 2008.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(Photo source: Daniel Ghita on Facebook)