The State Protection and Guard Service (PGS) considers the statement of the media organisations concerning the incident of January 18, when the President’s bodyguards forbade the access of the journalists from two TV stations and a publication into the National Palace, is but partially true, reads the PGS’s answer to a notification of media NGOs. The reply specifies the PGS has conducted an internal inquest, following the declaration. After the PGS chief Igor Bodorin maintains the reasons have proven partially, he mentions the bodyguards but did their duties, as provided for by their legal regulations. Referring to the January 18 incident, when comedian Gheorghe Urschi gave a performance, the PGS says the Pro TV Chisinau crew did not observe certain procedures. The media-dealing NGOs’ declaration also mentioned the case when a journalist had been aggressed while filming the inauguration of “The Country’s Fur-Tree” later last year. As for this instance, the PGS says he was stopped because he had no distinctive signs to suggest he was a journalist. In the declaration made later in January, the media NGOs mentioned that „breaking the Press Law and exceeding their competence, the president’s guards forbade the journalists from two TV stations and a publication to have access in the building of the National Palace, despite the existence of a beforehand agreement between the journalists and organisers as to mirroring the event. The journalists were forced to erase the pictures taken outside the National Palace, which contained images with president Voronin.” The signatories also referred to a similar case when a reporter was aggressed by the president’s bodyguards while filming Vladimir Voronin at the ceremony of inaugurating „The Country’s Fur-Tree.” The signing NGOs demanded to punish the guilty in all the cases of aggressing journalists, of violating the right to get and to disseminate information „which runs the risk to become a common, daily practice in Moldova.”