The mostly elderly demonstrators who gathered today outside the Chisinau City Hall building to protest a rise in tariffs are bullying their peers who express dissenting opinions. Some have been brutally denied access to the microphone, and some have even been assaulted physically, Info-Prim Neo reports. After making his way to the microphone through the crowd, Pavel Caraman, a demonstrator, barely said a couple of words when he found himself pushed back violently by other pensioners. Maia Laguta, a leftist former candidate for mayor and a key organizer of the protest, is urging the demonstrators not to allow dissenting voices to speak, so that the protesters couldn't be charged for not knowing what they want and what they are protesting for. The dissenters are called 'provokers', and so is Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, who also received a couple of smacks on the first day of the demonstrations, when he walked out of the City Hall to pacify the crowds. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, Chisinau's police chief Vladimir Botnari has denied earlier statements by a top officer that the police would intervene if the demonstrators block again vehicle traffic. Commenting on the instances of brawling between the protesters, Botnari said infiltrated fomentors are to blame. But, he said, police officers in civilian clothes are watching them from inside and will intervene when necessary. In addition, other officers in civies are monitoring the situation from outside the crowd. Pensioners are protesting for the second consecutive day against rises in water and sewer rates and public conveyance fares, which are due to take effect on October 1.