Filat calls last April events 'natural uprising'

Prime Minister Vlad Filat thinks that what happened on 7 April 2009 was a natural uprising of those who didn't want to live in an isolated country governed in an authoritarian manner, and that that uprising was degraded by provokers, who served the interests of the Communist Party. “The Communists simply didn't reckon the finality of the events, which slipped out of control”, the premier told reporters on Tuesday, after a quiz session with the parliamentary commission investigating the causes of last April's events, Info-Prim Neo reports. Vlad Filat was the last official to be heard by the commission. He said he was ready to cooperate with any investigative body, including the prosecutors, to elucidate the events. “I will go wherever I will be called, because I wish for the truth of April 7 to be known”, said the premier, adding that as a citizen he was displeased with how slow the investigations proceeded, but that he was unable to influence it as a prime minister. “Time is an important yet not decisive factor. We must know who gave the orders, who executed them and who provoked the mass disturbances”, said Filat. “The Communists' accounts of the April events were totally false”, said Filat. “Yet I presented evidence on video, which abounds in detail, including about what happened at the meeting with Voronin”, says the premier, who is convinced that the provokers infiltrated among the crowds were controlled by those who were in power at the time. “I saw them (the provokers) very well, they were standing beside the police. They weren't numerous, but well-organized. I wonder how is it that the provokers haven't been identified yet”. “The report of the commission should be regarded as an extensive analysis of the events that occurred on 7 April 2009, yet the Prosecutor's Office will be the body to make the formal accusations. I wish that on 7 April 2010 a new chapter could start in our lives. What we have to do now is to unify society”, said Filat.