The management of Pro TV Chisinau states itself “disappointed with the way in which the Interior Ministry has understood to solve the case of maltreating its cameraman Mihai Sambra in a police office in Chisinau,” Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a release issued by the station and signed by its manager Catalin Giosan, “instead of taking firm steps to prevent repeating such cases and punish the guilty people guilty of aggressing the Pro TV cameraman, the Interior Ministry tries to fabricate a file with fake witnesses.” The station n “rejects categorically the statements made Monday by the Chisinau police chief Iacob Gumenita, according to whom, Pro TV would have unleashed a campaign to denigrate the police,” and “condemns the irresponsible behavior of the police involved in this incident, asking “against the Interior Minister to punish the guilty ones of committing these illegalities.” Pro TV maintains its cameraman Mihai Sambra was allegedly fiercely beaten on October 8 in the quarters of the Buiucani sector police. According to the station, the journalist was arrested in the street by a police patrol and taken to the commissariat where he was allegedly ill-treated by four policemen. Mihai Sambra was left to leave in the morning of the next day and says he was given no explanation. The Interior Ministry rejects the cameraman’s statements and says the prosecutors’ inquest reveals that the cameraman would have been beaten by two students, and the case is nothing but “denigration in the address of the municipal police.”