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Valeriu Boboc was thrown from floor and found near Parliament's building, Vladimir Voronin


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Valeriu Boboc, the young man who died on the night of April 8, was thrown out of the window of a Parliament floor, not killed by police officers in the Great National Assembly Square. The former President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin said he received this information from the Ministry of the Interior during the April 2009 events. The leader of the parliamentary Opposition made related statements during Pro TV's program “In Profunzime” on Monday evening, Info-Prim Neo reports. The press reported yet that Valeriu Boboc was beaten to death by policemen who clashed with the protesters. Vladimir Voronin does not trust the results of the medical examination conducted by a British expert after Valeriu Boboc's body was exhumed. The expert established that the young man died as a result of blows on the head and did not poison as the Foreign Ministry informed during the first days after this death. “A version is that Boboc was found lying near the Parliament's building. Somebody threw him,” Voronin said, adding certain goals were probably pursued. The former head of state denied that real bullets were used on the night of April 8, as the Prosecutor General's Office reported. “I did not hear about this. I wasn't informed. It's a tale,” Voronin said. Asked about the maltreatment of protesters inside police commissariats, Vladimir Voronin said he found out about this from the mass media and will draw conclusions after the Prosecutor General's Office and the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the April events, which conduct investigations in parallel, present the final report on those events. Vladimir Voronin reiterated his position that it was an attempted coup on April 7, staged by the present government with the help of external forces. He said that the behavior of the former Opposition proves this because it prepared the boycotting of the April 5 election outcome beforehand, according to him, as the Central Election Commission was to make the results public not earlier than April 8. “Vladimir Filat and Dorin Chirtoaca planned to organize protests in the Great National Assembly Square,” Vladimir Voronin said. Asked why the authorities allowed devastating the Parliament and the Presidential Office, Vladimir Voronin said the 1,300 police officers could not deal with the aggressive crowd and avoided a bloodshed. At the same time, he stated that the personal guard of the head of state protected the President's office located on the third floor with guns. “They were the only armed persons who warned the protesters they will shoot if they try to enter the office,” Voronin said. According to him, during those events he was in the Government's building, in the office of the then Premier Zinaida Grecianyi. The leader of the PCRM said when he will be questioned by the parliamentary commission of inquiry on Tuesday, March 23, he will ask why the first office burned in the Parliament was the bookkeepers' office. Voronin also said that the police allowed the protesters to hoist the flag of the EU on the Parliament's building on condition that they stop the devastation. “However, I cannot understand how the flag of another state (Romania – e.n.) was also hoisted there,” he said. Voronin said that he and the administration of the Security and Information Service knew that protests were being organized, but the police were not prepared as they did not expect acts of devastation.