Alexandru Tanase: Truth about April 7 will not be discovered until election of President depends on Communists’ votes

The Prosecutor’s Office and all the state institutions that are in a position of subordination will not make effort to get at the truth about the April 7, 2009 events. Until the election of the head of state depends on Communists’ votes, nothing will change. Neither Voronin nor someone else will be prosecuted, Minister of Justice Alexandru Tanase said in an interview for Radio Free Europe, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. “The problem resides not only in the election of the President. There are possible configurations and scenarios when the Communists can become a part of the government structure or formula. Thus, no significant steps will be taken until this problem is solved. Vitalie Nagacevschi, who headed the commission (commission for elucidating the April 7, 2009 events), was made a scapegoat. Many people now wonder who is to blame for those events – Voronin or Nagacevschi?” said the minister. According to Alexandru Tanase, the Ministry of the Interior provided no document asked for. The Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security and Information Service did not cooperate with the commission. None of the members of the commission, who represented all the parliamentary parties, did something. Nagacevschi, who was more impulsive, was made a scapegoat and the issue was resolved. Alexandru Tanase also said that many people expected that the commission will obtain the imprisonment of Vladimir Voronin, but the commission was entrusted only with the task of elucidating those events. The minister stated that the courts are to examine 125 legal cases on use of torture. Not all of them will end with conviction. Only 70-80% of those who are prosecuted will be penalized. According to the Chisinau City Hall, about 300 persons, mainly young, were maltreated in police stations during the April 7, 2009 events.