The April 7 meeting of Parliament started with a one-minute silence in memory of the victims of the April 7, 2009 events. Speaker Igor Grosu asked to organize hearings within the Parliament’s commission on national security, defense a d public order for the responsible institutions to present information about those events and the developments in this case, IPMN reports.

“Today, April 7, it the day of freedom when we remember those thousands of young people who protested in the Great National Assembly Square for freedom, for defending their European future and hope for a better life. Now more than ever, we see how important the freedom is and what its price is. Thirteen years passed and we do not yet have a completed “April 7” case that would reveal the names of those who orchestrated those events and, what is more important, would enable to hold accountable those who ill-treated hundreds of young people in police commissariats in the capital city,” stated Igor Grosu.

The head of the commission on security Lilian Carp said that approaches were already made to the Prosecutor’s Office and information is to be presented to the public in the near future.

The leader of the Party of Communists Vladimir Voronin, who held office of President in 2009, said the young people who took part in the events of April 2009 were mobilized. It should be determined who mobilized them in the central square of Chisinau and why. Those who governed the last 13 years had time to clarify this case that was dropped two times and was reopened for known reasons.

After observing a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the April 7, 2009 events, it was noted that a pogrom took place in Chisinau 119 years ago. It was the first massacre of Jewish population in the former Tsarist Empire.

“These were sad events when the representatives of an ethnic group were not only ill-treated, but also destroyed en masse. Regrettably, the events that occurred 119 years ago are not the only ones. Similar events were also witnessed during World War II, when over 200,000 citizens were killed by the Nazis,” said MP of the Bloc of Communists and Socialists, Deputy Speaker Vlad Batrîncea. He proposed observing a minute’s silence in memory of these victims too. 

Also, images of the victims of the war in Ukraine were shown on screens in the Parliament’s assembly hall at the beginning of the siting.