CMC to discuss tombs’ profaning issue

The Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) might discuss at the next sitting the state of cemeteries from the capital. The issue drew councilors’ attention after the representative of the faction Alliance „Moldova Noastra”, Constantin Pasecinic, addressed an appeal at the last CMC sitting, requesting information regarding the location of cemeteries of the capital and their borders, built after 1940. In order to support his appeal, the councilor mentioned the case of a courtyard on Testimiteanu street where a fence of tombstones of Jewish tombs was built, and about a graveyard on Cuza-Voda Blvd., Botanica district, on which apartment blocks were built. Pasecinic also mentioned the recent case in Telecentru district, when the workers who enlarge the street Pan Halippa have discovered under the asphalt human remains. He also noted that, the cases of tombs profaning, including by authorities, became common. The interim mayor of Chisinau municipality, Vasile Ursu, said that the situation on the street Pan Halippa may be considered as tomb profaning, even if, he noted, the street is not build on the cemetery, and the bones could have been brought here previously, while repair works were performed. Ursu underscored the fact that the workers do not throw the discovered bones, but bury them in a common tomb. CMC will resume the discussions about the situation of cemeteries from the capital, as well as the cases noted by the councilor Pasecinic, at one of the next sittings. This week, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has made public the information regarding the tomb profaning cases in the Cemetery „Sf. Lazar” from Chisinau by its administration. For some money (about 1,000 lei), the employees of the cemetery were exhuming bones out of some tombs in which other bodies were burried. 11 cemeteries are located in Chisinau.