The Committee of the National Resistance Movement ACUM will submit a collective complaint to the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) against the way in which the government on August 27 decided to relocate by force the people who were protesting near the monument to Ruler Stephan the Great and Holy. Those who suffered on the Independence Day are requested to go to the head offices of the Party Action and Solidarity (PAS) and the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” (PPPDA) and give testimony and bring evidence showing that they were victims of the police, IPN reports.
PPPDA leader Andrei Năstase thanked the protesters for their courage not to conform even if they were pushed and dragged by police officers. “We will collect comprehensive information on which our collective complaint against the current government, the authorities, will be based. We will complain about the way in which they decided to persecute peaceful protesters who pursued only one goal – to show to the whole world that there are yet characters and that the Republic of Moldova has a future through its people, while those to blame will be held accountable,” stated the politician.
Deputy chairman of the Liberal-Democratic Party Ion Terguţă said the press in the Republic of Moldova is mainly politically affiliated and the country is slipping to dictatorship and the citizens should know this. “We continue to ask the media outlets, especially the public TV channel, to do their job and to respect the diversity of opinion,” he noted.
PAS leader Maia Sandu said that even if the managers of the Ministry of the Interior and of the National Patrolling Inspectorate said they will do their best for the protest to take place peacefully, the police officers were part of the show organized by the government that tried to stage provocations and incite violence. The current government can resort only to force as it has no authority.
The monument to ruler Stephan the Great and Holy, where the protesters of the National Resistance Movement ACUM stayed overnight after the August 26 protest, was surrounded by police officers in the morning of August 27. The police demanded that the protesters should temporarily change the place of the protest, until the festivities devoted to the Independence Day were over. As the crowd refused to comply with the demand, the police officers intervened and forced the protesters to move away. The ceremony to lay flowers at the monument was held amid protests.
