Activist Fiodor Ghelici, ex-member of the state commission for the investigation of the April 2009 events, said President Igor Dodon lies when he says the documents concerning those events were classified.
Fiodor Ghelici made reference to an interview given by the President. “Mister President, stop lying. You were an eyewitness to those events. I want to remind everyone that Mister Dodon was first deputy prime minister of the Republic of Moldova. Prime Minister Zinaida Grecheanyi was his colleague and very close party mate. And everyone knows what happened, including Dodon, as all the senior state officials stayed nonstop in the office of Premier Zinaida Grecheanyi on April 7,” the activist stated in a news conference at IPN.
According to Fiodor Ghelici, President Dodon said it was an attempted coup, but this is not so. The President also said that if those who ruled as of 2009 were not the direct organizers of those events, they were the main beneficiaries and this is also not true. “Mister President, you know everything, but lie publicly. Igor Dodon said ex-President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin didn’t take part in the April events. You lie again, Mister Dodon. Mister Voronin was the Head of State and ruled the country,” stated the activist.
He reminded that a commission of inquiry was constituted then and Vladimir Țurcanu, currently Socialist MP, was named its chairman. Fiodor Ghelici, who was a member of the commission, convinced himself that this was created for show and the commission’s chairman wasn’t interested in investigating the events. A number of representatives of the power, including Zinaida Grecheanyi and the then President Vladimir Voronin, refused to have meetings with members of the commission.
In July 2009, the commission presented its report and this said the major political goal of the April 2009 events was to destroy the opposition and to distract attention from the socioeconomic crisis and the problems experienced by the state. The report also noted it was a plan aimed at destroying the Presidential Building and the Parliament Building so as to obtain economic advantages as a result of repair works. Discrediting Romania, the Transnistrian region and Russia was another goal of those events, according to the report.
