The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) considers the sentence by which two former police officers were acquitted for ill-treating ex-MP Valentina Cusnit on April 7, 2009 is illegal and will thus challenge it, IPN reports, quoting a communiqué of the PGO.

The sentence was passed by the Buiucani Court on August 6. The court ordered acquitting the former head of the General Public Order Police Division and his deputy for the reason that the offense wasn’t committed by the defendants.

According to prosecutors, in the evening of April 7, 2009, not far from the Great National Assembly Square, the defendants insulted the victim, pushed her and immobilized her. They dispossessed her of the megaphone and escorted her towards the National Palace by force. They hit her all over the body, causing injuries to her.

The prosecutors asked for five years’ imprisonment for the offenders. They also demanded banning them from working in the bodies of the Ministry of the Interior for a five-year period for abuse of power.

The sentence will be appealed to a higher court.

The mass protests against the results of the April 5 parliamentary elections staged on April 7, 2009 degenerated into violence. A large part of the protesters were later ill-treated, including in police station, where they were tried illegally. Several hundred criminal cases were started against police officer over ill-treatment and abuse of power. One person died as a result of the April 7, 2009 events.