Chisinau mayor: Moldova is not a democratic state any more, it's totalitarian

“The Chisinau city hall will compile a file with medical-legal certificates, photo, video and audio evidence, including in English, connected to the people having been ill-treated by the Moldovan police after the last week events,” mayor Dorin Chirtoaca told his staff meeting on Monday, Info-Prim Neo reports. He says the dossier will be sent to international organizations “in order to change their attitude towards Moldova.” “The Communist authorities use the Europeans' statements that there would be democracy in this country, while the things are the other way around. It's dictatorship and terror. If the international bodies are ignorant of this thing, we'll have to further bear these nice statements about our state,” Dorin Chirtoaca said. The mayor says teams of two people, one of them – necessarily a lawyer, will go to the hospitals where the youths stay and will gather evidence from them. The city hall will offer cars to patients to go to medical examiners for certificates. The mayor has told his employees to try and get into the detention places “to halt the terror instituted by the Communist regime.” “People are hunted, the youths are afraid to get out from their homes, they fear to be simply kidnapped from streets. These are unprecedented crimes. I have personally seen youths systematically tortured and forced to sign statements that they were sent by the opposition parties to devastate the Parliament and the Presidency,” the Chisinau mayor stated, mentioning that “although the access to information is restricted, the genocide against own people must be stopped.” Municipal police representatives did not attend the staff sitting. The Interior Ministry denies the police would ill-treat the people arrested after the protests of April 7.