Acting President Mihai Ghimpu, Prime Minister Vlad Filat, Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca, lawmakers, ministers, public servants and dozens of ordinary people gathered at Saint Theodora de la Sihla Church to take part in a service in memory of the victims of the anticommunist protests held in Chisinau a year ago. Priest Ioan Ciuntu officiated at the ceremony, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Christians prayed for the souls of the young persons who were killed in the Great National Assembly Square on the night of April 8. Priest Ioan Ciuntu remembered Valeriu Boboc, Eugen Tapu, Ion Tibuleac and Maxim Canishchev. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, the head of Centru district Vladimir Sarban said April 7 was a day of Freedom, but it also witnessed tragedies. He considers that it is the prosecution bodies that must pronounce on those events and the videos made public recently will help them find out the truth. MP Ion Hadarca said the day of April 7 has not been yet clearly defined, but he is sure that it was a day of Freedom as tens of thousands of young people expressed then their wish to live in a free country. “On April 7, the young people said they are tired of what had been built in Moldova during over eight years. It was a day when we freed ourselves from the Communist regime. As a father and a teacher, I was afraid not to lose my children during those events, but I was also proud of my children,” said Boris Volosatyi, the head of the high school “Gheorghe Asachi”. Singer Cristi Aldea-Teodorovici said the young persons who died had nothing in common with the vandals who devastated the Parliament Building and the Presidential Office. “Even if those events had been organized by the Communists or someone else, a change took place in Moldova on April 7 and the people now feel freer,” said the son of the late singers Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici. Premier Vlad Filat stressed that Moldova's fate was decided on April 7, 2009 and that day will remain in history as a day when the society made common cause, but also a day when persons lost their lives. In his sermon at the end of the service, priest Ioan Ciuntu said that the parents cannot kill their children even if they are criminals. Dozens of young people were beaten by police officers on the night of April 8. The pictures taken by the video cameras from the Government Building confirmed it. The young persons who were taken to police stations said later that they had been ill-treated and beaten mercilessly there.