Alex Grigorievs, vice chairman of the International NGO Alliance for Regional Security and Democracy, is the main organizer of the April 2009 events. Russian blogger Eduard Bagirov was arrested by officers of the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) on April 7, 2009, while the police officers were deprived of guns. These are the main revelations made by the ex-President of the Republic of Moldova, Communist leader Vladimir Voronin, about the April 2009 protests in the program “Important” on TVC 21 channel, IPN reports.
Referring to Alex Grigorievs, the Communist leader said this is also the organizer of the anti-Trump protests and of the Kiev maidan. “The Republic of Moldova was the first experiment. He intended to stage a maidan in Chisinau and then in all the CIS member states. They failed to do this in Chisinau because we didn’t use guns and didn’t allow bloodshed. I ordered the then minister of the interior Gheorghe Papuc to withdraw the guns from the police, not because I didn’t have confidence in the police officers, but because I feared one of these could be downed and deprived of gun and protesters would have used the gun to shoot at the crowd and then said that the police shot by order of Voronin,” stated the chairman of the Party of Communists.
Vladimir Voronin also said that the Russian blogger Eduard Bagirov, who was charged by the Prosecutor’s Office and judged by Moldovan courts of law for organizing the April 2009 events, was arrested by SIS officers on April 7, 2009. “As the then President, I was informed about the arrest of Bagirov, who was set free in several days. The SIS was then headed by Artur Reshetnikov, who could not explain why Bagirov was arrested and released,” he stated.
Vladimir Voronin said the political leaders who took over after 2009 had been involved in the organization of the April protests. “The complaints about mass arrests are drivel. How couldn’t they have been arrested if they had destroyed state institutions and struggled with the police? I regret none of the actions taken then. If I could turn back time, I would be harsher, especially towards the political leaders who directed the masses,” stated the ex-President.
He denied the version that the April 2009 protests were spontaneous in character. “What kind of spontaneity can we speak about when so many children were mobilized in the street and when there were piles of stones, bottles of gasoline, 200 employees of the special services of Romania and another 100 officers of the special services of Ukraine? The first bottle with gasoline was thrown into the Parliament Building office where the Declaration of Independence was kept. The document was kept in a smaller safe deposit box that was inside a larger box. The keys were at their place, but the boxes were open and the Declaration of Independence was burned. It’s clear that they prepared everything,” said the Communist leader.
Vladimir Voronin denied the rumors that the current president of the Democratic Party Vladimir Plahotniuc had been involved in the 2009 events and that this had convinced Marian Lupu to leave the Party of Communists. “They got use to accusing Plahotniuc of everything it is done and is not done in this country. He had no connection. I’m almost sure that Lupu didn’t even know Plahotniuc. Lupu got angry because he wasn’t fielded for President,” he stated.
