Vadim Misin: PG works unilaterally and badly

Communist MP Vadim Misin said the police officers who maltreated the young people in the Great National Assembly Square on the night of April 8, 2009 must be held accountable, but those who maintained public order should be considered heroes. He made related statements on Friday morning, when he presented himself at the Prosecutor General's Office (PG) to give testimony, Info-Prim Neo reports. Vadim Misin said he was cited after his former party colleague Marian Lupu, the current leader of the Democratic Party, said that Vadim Misin and Vasile Iovv were in his office in the Parliament Building on April 7. “We stayed in Lupu's office by 2 P.M. and saw the persons who were leading the crowd through the window. The Prosecutor's Office should look for them, not lose time questioning us,” Misin said. According to the MP, the police officers behaved like heroes, but the Parliament Building and the Presidential Office could not be protected as there were too many devastators. At the same time, Vadim Misin said the police could have used real bullets, but avoided bloodshed. Asked to comment on the videos presented yesterday by Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca, which show police officers maltreating young people in Chisinau's central square on the night of April 8, Vadim Misin said they can hinder the investigation, but they were to be made public if found. Vadim Misin, who is the vice chairman of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the April 2009 events, said the commission does not have the videos presented by Chirtoaca. On the other hand, the commission's chairman Vitalie Nagachevski said they had been viewed and analyzed. The Communist MP also said that none of the police officers questioned by the commission said they received orders to beat the young people. Vadim Misin considers that if the PG is politically unbiased, the society will find out the truth about the April events soon. Otherwise, those to blame will remain unpunished. “For the time being, the Prosecutor General's Office works unilaterally and badly,” he said.