Members of the Great National Assembly Council and of the Civic Platform “Dignity and Truth” said employees of the rule of law institutions take all kinds of actions to intimidate participants in the people’s protests. These said the activists have their phones tapped and are being followed. Moreover, criminal cases were started against these.
The Council’s head Andrei Nastase, in a news conference at IPN on December 8, said they found out from sources from the Ministry of the Interior about the existence of a document signed by the acting chief of the General Police Inspectorate, where it is said that two criminal cases were started over public disorder.
One of the cases was started after the October 4 protest, when, according to the document cited by Andrei Nastase, the protesters tried to illegally enter the Parliament Building. The protesters are also accused of ill-treating police officers in front of a business center, where these formed a cordon, of inciting violence and of throwing stones at the building. The second criminal case was initiated after the October 6 protest mounted in front of the building of the National Agency for Energy Regulation. Here, the protesters would also have used violence against the police.
Andrei Nastase insists that the protesters had a decent behavior at both of the protests, while the organizers made sure that the legal norms were obeyed. According to him, these criminal cases are nothing else but an instrument to intimidate the population and make them not to express their dissatisfaction and demands.
“These cases are nothing but a classical example of dictatorship aimed at intimidating civil society and the people who protest against the illegalities,” said the Council’s deputy head Valentin Dolganiuc. He also said that the rule of law institutions are those that should protect the human rights, but they do the opposite and the people can seek justice only at the European Court of Human Rights.
The Council’s secretary Chiril Motpan said that having work experience in the law enforcement bodies, he felt not only once that he was being followed. Persons who posed as protesters were infiltrated into the ‘town of dignity’ set up in the Great National Assembly Square in Chisinau, but these actually pursued other goals.
Member of the Civic Platform “Dignity and Truth” Constantin Boesteanu said that while on a trip to several districts of the country the previous days, representatives of the protesters were repeatedly stopped by patrolling inspectors without a plausible reason. According to him, it’s certain that the police obeyed the orders of their superiors who, tapping their phones, knew their itinerary.
