The employees of the Green Areas service warn that they will go on strike if the prosecutors do not release their colleague who was arrested after a woman from Chisinau was crushed to death by a falling tree two days ago, IPN reports.
“We demand that our colleague should be set free. If he is not released, we will go on passive strike and then on active strike. We guarantee that in several weeks the city will be full of garbage, dry flowers and fallen trees. Our colleague did nothing bad. The tree that fell was green. It was healthy and the people near whose fence the tree grew declared that they didn’t ask the tree to be cut down. We call on the Prosecutor’s Office to be very attentive and to release our colleague,” Green Areas vice director Galina Leahu said in a news conference on June 16.
The service’s employees noted that if their colleague is not set free, they will not go to work and the garbage bins will not be cleaned, the lawns will not be cut and the fallen trees will not be removed.
According to Galina Leahu, the service has about 600 employees. The provided financing satisfies only 29% of the needs a year and they try hard to maintain the service.
The head of the Buiucani branch of the Green Areas service was arrested on charges of professional misconduct within a criminal case that was started after a woman was crushed to death by a falling tree on Vasile Lupu St on June 14. According to prosecutors, decision makers of the service were informed by locals about the danger of the tree falling, but didn’t react and didn’t ensure efficient examination of the trees situated in the area in their charge.
