Parliament postpones taking decision on report of commission of inquiry into April 7, 2009 events

The legislative body Thursday did not adopt a decision on the report presented by the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the April 7, 2009 events. A part of the members of the Alliance for European Integration criticized the commission for its work. Its chairman Vitalie Nagacevschi replied angrily that the commission included representatives of all the parliamentary groups and its role was not to substitute the Prosecutor's Office, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Prosecutor General's Office was asked to present a comprehensive report on the results of the investigations into the April 2009 events in Parliament within 30 days. It will also have to examine again the challenges about the rigging of the April 5, 2009 elections and to render a relevant public report, as well as to check if the servers of the public authorities were subjected to a cybernetic attack on April 7 and 8 and to hold the persons to blame accountable. The Ministry of the Interior will make public the materials of the internal inquiries held to identify the police officers who had been involved in those events. Another instruction for the Ministry was to identify the instigators who took part in the devastation of the Parliament Building and the Presidential Office and the persons who caused bodily injuries to police officers. The Supreme Council of Magistrates is to check the legality of the actions taken by the judges who passed judgments at police stations and to verify the statements of the judges, who said that some of the members of the Council authorized them to try cases at police stations. MP Vitalie Nagacevschi said that European experts came to Chisinau this week. They will have meetings with the authors of the report and with representatives of the Communist Opposition. Liberal MP Corina Fusu asked Nagacevschi about the instigators who were in the Great National Assembly Square. “There were identified only two instigators, but there are pictures showing there were much more persons who incited the crowd to violence. Why the police officers who killed Valeriu Boboc were not held accountable?,” Fusu asked. “The commission cannot hold persons responsible. This is the duty of the prosecution bodies,” Nagacevschi answered. Liberal-Democrat MP Valeriu Ghiletchi asked the commission's chairman how the former head of state Vladimir Voronin can be held responsible as he misused his authority in that period. Nagacevschi said again that it was the task of the Prosecutor's Office. Unaffiliated MP Victor Stepaniuc, who represents the United Moldova Party, said the commission did not manage to determine the causes and consequences of those events. “The assessments are subjective. Neither the former nor the present Government wanted to identify the instigators who totaled about 400,” Stepaniuc said. He asked Nagacevschi how certain documents of the Security and Information Service (SIS) disappeared. “We cannot verify. The former administration of the SIS said all the documents were transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office, which should provide explanations in this case,” Vitalie Nagacevschi said. Democrat MP Dumitru Diacov criticized the commission for not formulating a clear political position, as the Communist Opposition did. Diacov said the police is blamed, while the 2-3 persons who gave orders have not been identified and punished. Liberal MP Boris Vieru said certain elements of scenario were established, but the authors were not identified. “The commission brought together all the information in a report. It is the Parliament that should take a political decision,” Nagacevschi said. He also said that the positions of the parliamentary commission and the Communists are similar. They diverge only on one point – the PCRM says those events constituted a a coup attempt, while the government coalition says they did not. The parliamentary commission of inquiry into the April 7, 2009 events was set up on October 20, 2009. Its report was presented on May 7, 2010.