Chairman of the public association “Moldova mea” Fiodor Ghelici said the inhabitants of the Moldovan villages live in fear because they are robbed, while the authorities do nothing to protect them.

“The theft became a national trait. It is said but the theft can be already considered the pride and an accomplishment of our people, starting from up to down,” Fiodor Ghelici said in a news conference at IPN on April 23, where he was accompanied by residents of Baltata village of Criuleni district, where six households were robbed during one week.

An inhabitant of Baltata Tatiana Mamaevscaia, who is a member of the association, said that last July her husband went missing. After half a year of searches, a villager discovered the man’s body in a well in the center of the village. The woman hasn’t been yet issued with the medical examiners’ conclusion concerning the cause of death. Furthermore, she was robbed of poultry and the culprits weren’t identified.

Baltata resident Andrei Jomir said he erected a house and started to move, but one day he discovered that he was robbed of property of about 300,000 lei. The police have done nothing since February. Neither the culprits nor the stolen goods were identified.

Baltata councilor Valentina Serafimiciuc said the local police officer is replaced so often that not even the local authorities know him. She saw no narrative report by the local police officer ever.

Fiodor Ghelici said such cases happen all over the country. He called on the people not to keep silent and to join the May 3 protest that will be staged by members and sympathizers of the Civil Platform ”Dignity and Truth” so as to make themselves heard and to make the authorities aware of their problems.