Parliamentary commission for studying April 2009 events will render final report in a week

The parliamentary commission for studying the causes and consequences of the April 2009 events obtained videos showing police officers kicking protesters. The commission's final report will be presented in Parliament closer to April 7, said MP Vitalie Nagachevski, the chairman of the commission. The MP said all the information collected by the commission during the questioning meetings held so far is valuable. “Even the refusal to make statements is important for the report we are preparing,” Nagachevski said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. Among the persons who refused to answer the questions posed by the commission is the former President Vladimir Voronin and judge Dorin Popovich, who was dismissed from post for trying cases inside police commissariats. Petru Corduneanu, who headed the Ministry of the Interior's Public Order Division in April 2009, gave evasive answers, Vitalie Nagachevski said. “By April 7, the report will be registered with the Parliament's Standing Bureau. If the legislative body does not convene on April 7, I hope the report will be discussed immediately afterward,” the MP said. The report will also analyze the steps taken by the authorities to manage the situation. “According to the Moldovan legislation and the ECHR's case law, the authorities have certain obligations in emergencies. They had to make everything possible to deal with the situation without breaking the law. We will see if the Communist authorities fulfilled their obligations or not. If they did not, we will determine why and identify solutions to avoid similar situations in the future,” the commission's chairman said. However, the parliamentary commission cannot answer all the questions related to April 7. “We cannot establish if Valeriu Boboc (the young man who died during the protests – e.n.) was killed by police officers. We cannot perform ballistic and criminological examinations, but can make public interesting facts revealed by those questioned and can show videos that the public has never seen,” Vitalie Nagachevski said.