The Alliance for Centenary and, separately, the Liberal Party on April 7 staged events to commemorate the victims of the April 7, 2009 demonstrations, when many young people were tortured in municipal police commissariats following the protests mounted after the April 5 parliamentary elections. The unionists staged a flashmob meeting where they reproduced the moment when Valeriu Boboc was killed and how the police are investigating the case, IPN reports.
In the Great National Assembly Square, the young people lit candles in the form of digit “7” and laid flowers. “It is a pity that they forget what the people struggled for nine years ago. Today, we organized this event to remember the heroes who struggled then for freedom and truth. We staged this event because we remember and we care,” said Anatolie Ursu, chairman of the public association “Moldova’s Youth”
Shortly afterward, representatives of the Liberal Party also laid flowers and lit candles. According to the party’s first deputy chairman Dorin Chirtoaca, it has been nine years since the April 7, 2009 events, but they haven’t yet announced officially that a person was thrown out of the winnow of the Parliament Building and this died and who was this, but the then administration knows it. Also, there are many questions as to the criminal cases started over the April 7 events.
“It is painful because we, the PL, made every effort to see justice being done, but after nine years we draw the conclusion that the other two components of the Alliance for European Integration, the PLDM and PDM, hushed up how they could and what they could to hide the traces and now we see a former Head of State (Vladimir Voronin, e.n.) declaring in the country’s Parliament that a man was thrown out and we don’t know who this was as Voronin says this was Valeriu Boboc, but Boboc was here, in the Square, and the video images confirm this,” stated Dorin Chirtoaca.
In a report two years ago, the Prosecutor General’s Office said there were started 102 criminal cases against persons who actively took part in the public disorder of April 2009, which was accompanied by the devastation of the buildings of the central power of the Republic of Moldova, in acts of hooliganism and stealing of public property from these buildings. The prosecutors also examined the offenses committed by representatives of the public authorities against protesters and other persons. Based on the submitted complaints, criminal cases were started in 71 cases, over torture, abuse of authority and misuse of power.
