The Bureau for Reintegration Policies said the meditators and observers to the 5+2 format talks were informed about the May 11 Security Zone incident that resulted in the death of a man aged 47 from Răscăieți village of Ștefan Vodă district.

According to the General Police Inspectorate, two villagers were fishing from a boat on the river at a distance of about 20 meters from the left bank of the Nistru. At a certain moment, unknown persons from the left side of the Nistru dressed in military uniforms asked the two to approach the bank. The men ignored the requests and tried to reach the right bank by swimming. One of the men aged 43 got to the right bank and saw his 47-year-old fellow villager lying on the left bank, with the persons in uniforms staying around him, Diana Fetco, head of the Inspectorate’s Communication and Protocol Section, stated for IPN. 

The police in Ștefan Vodă took legal action and are to establish all the circumstances of this case. The cause of death is to be found out by the medical examiner. The representative of the police in Moldova’s Delegation will raise this subject in the May 13 meeting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC). Explanations will be sought over the presence of the illegal Transnistrian forces in the Security Zone. The representatives of the OSCE, Russia and Ukraine to the JCC will be asked to become involved and provide assistance in elucidating all the circumstances of this case.

The Bureau for Reintegration Policies announced that it asked the chief negotiator of Tiraspol to the Transnistrian settlement process to provide detailed information about this case and to elucidate the circumstances as the body was taken to the left bank of the Nistru by employees of the so-called local police force with the request to transmit this to the responsible bodies and relatives.