Border police officers will be engaged in counterterrorism training courses and will be outfitted with modern equipment and armament, Border Police chief Rosian Vasiloi announced. He noted that the first course will be launched on July 10, IPN reports.
After the armed attack on the Chisinau International Airport, which resulted in the death of a border guard and an airport security agent, a number of measures have been taken. “During all these days, I have been on the front line, together with the team, so as to implement a number of protocols at the Border Police Sector of the Chisinau International Airport and in the system. I thank our counterparts from the Ministry of the Interior for standing by us in these activities. We are solidary and make a common front against terror,” stated Rosian Vasiloi.
“On June 30, the attacker came to the Republic of Moldova. He wasn’t then in any of the international databases of wanted persons and couldn’t be therefore found in these when the information about him was processed. The decision not to allow him to enter the country as a result of interviewing was taken because he didn’t meet the entry conditions. His subsequent actions and his attack on Sergei (border guard who was killed) impose intervention decisions in the structure so that we ensure a personnel counterterrorism training component that will become a key one – the life of border guards and of citizens who are in transit through border crossing points must be protected at any cost,” said the head of the Border Police.
An internal inquiry was launched and this was merged with the proceedings instituted by the specialized subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). “We are fully involved in the complex control of the operational and organizational activities at the frontier post working at the Chisinau International Airport, which were initiated by the MIA. We offer all the necessary support in the probe opened by the Prosecutors General’s Office,” stated Rosian Vasiloi. He noted that in all these activities, they enjoy support from the partners from FRONTEX, the U.S., Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania.
A border guard and an airport security officer were shot dead by the Tajik shooter, a former police officer, after he was refused entry into Moldova. The shooter was wounded in the exchange of gunfire and died in the hospital several days later. His body will be repatriated to Tajikistan. The relatives of the man initiated the necessary procedures with the assistance of the Tajik diaspora in Chisinau.
