Editing Horațiu Wesselescu (section)

== Death ==

Wesselescu was killed on 19 January 2025 during an armed ambush carried out by members of the [[Fish Collective]] at the [[Dunărea de Sud Nuclear Power Plant]]. Later reporting described the operation as a targeted strike against a high-value institutional collaborator of the [[Bucharest Butchers]].

According to reconstructed site timelines, Wesselescu remained in his office after administrative hours while reviewing documents connected to procurement and access control. During the initial stage of the attack, armed members of the [[Fish Collective]] entered the administrative section of the plant and moved toward his office through an internal corridor.

Wesselescu responded by opening a secured cabinet in his office and retrieving an MP40 submachine gun that he kept there unlawfully. He then exchanged gunfire with the attackers inside the administrative wing. During the firefight, he succeeded in wounding one of the attackers before losing control of the office corridor.

After the exchange, Wesselescu left the office area and attempted to flee the building toward the exterior parking section, where his official car was usually kept during late administrative shifts. Investigators later concluded that the attack had been planned as an ambush rather than a simple interior assault, because another armed member of the [[Fish Collective]] had already been positioned outside along the likely escape route.

As Wesselescu emerged from the building and moved toward the vehicle area, he was intercepted by the outside shooter and struck by a gunshot to the throat at close range. He collapsed near the exterior access route leading toward the parking bay. Plant medical personnel were unable to save him, and he died at the scene from the wound.

The injured attacker inside the building reportedly survived. Later accounts described the operation as one of the clearest examples of the [[Fish Collective]] targeting senior protected collaborators outside the former Tanoa command structure and inside the institutional support networks that had helped sustain the [[Bucharest Butchers]].