Alexandru Ursu’s family demand government’s support

The father and the wife of police officer Alexandru Ursu, who has been detained for three years now by the illegitimate Transnistrian administration, demand the government to take action. The family hasn’t seen Alexandru for half a year and has only occasional chances to send him packages with what he needs, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to his father and his wife, Alexandru Ursu doesn’t have a lawyer and he didn’t even see his son, who was born after he had already been jailed. Alexandru Ursu’s wife Irina says that in July 2007, they bought an apartment in Bender. Later, her husband was arrested by the Bender militsiya (Soviet-style police), who accused him of buying the apartment by faking documents and fraud. The trial took place behind closed doors, without a lawyer and on May 19, 2010, the so-called court of Bender district sentenced him to 15 years in jail. “Those from Transnistria told my husband he would rot in jail because he was a Moldovan policeman”, she said. Before his arrest, Alexandru Ursu was a police inspector in the village of Hagimus, which borders Bender town. His relatives says they had sent numerous requests to the central authorities of Moldova, but the officials always answer that they don’t have the means to intervene in the territory that isn’t under effective control. After the protest outside the Government building, the family sent requests to Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Eugen Carpov and to Prime Minister Vlad Filat.