The OSCE Mission follows attentively the situation related to the incident that happened in the Security Zone last night and that resulted in the kidnapping of a Moldovan police officer by the Transnistrian bodies. In a statement, the Mission says that it keeps in touch with both of the sides and also with the Joint Control Commission so as to clarify all the circumstances, IPN reports.

“We are very concerned about the growing tensions around this case and the potential negative impact on the settlement process and we have serious questions about the protection of human rights and the rule of law in connection with this incident,” said the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Claus Neukirch, being quoted in a press release.

A police officer of the Florești Police Inspectorate was kidnapped while in the yard of his house in Camenca town by employees of the Transnistrian security forces on October 7. The Prosecutor General’s Office started a criminal case started over kidnapping of a person and usurpation of the official position by employees of the security forces of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian republic. Earlier today, Alexandru Jizdan, the head of the Parliament’s national security, defense and public order commission, said that four persons were kidnapped by employees of the security ministry of the Transnistrian region in total and two of them are from Camenca. These include a police officer, an employee of the Public Services Agency and two persons about whom almost nothing is known.

Tiraspol announced that two of the four persons arrested on October 7 “for the commission of a series of offences” on the Transnistrian territory were set free.