Police trade union head criticized for statements concerning Valeriu Boboc

A number of public figures criticized the head of the police trade union “Demnitate” Mihai Lascu for saying that Valeriu Boboc, the young man who was killed on the night of April 8, was investigated for theft and drug keeping, Info-Prim Neo reports. The head of Chisinau's Centru district Vladimir Sarban said the statements made by Mihai Lascu are beyond criticism. “Even if he was an inveterate criminal, nobody had the right to kick him and beat him to death. If it happened so, the Christians were to take him to the hopsital and take all the required measures, not to throw him like a dog,” Vladimir Sarban said. According to MP Ion Hadarca, Mihai Lascu's statements are immortal. “I have's heard about Mihai Lascu when the protests took place and when cases of maltreatment and human rights violations were reported in the preelectoral period. Now he poses as a person who assesses moral qualities,” Ion Hadara said. Chisinau councilor Oleg Cernei said the assertions made by Mihai Lascu are rude. According to him, Lascu proved he is a cretin who slings mud at the young man who was murdered groundlessly. Cernei is sure that Valeriu Boboc was thrown near the Emergency Hospital not by ordinary police officers, but by representatives of the administration of the Ministry of the Interior, who are to blame for the crimes committed during those days. The head of the high school “Gheorghe Asachi” Boris Volosatyi said nobody has the right to judge a man who wasn't judged by the court. “The police officers behaved like cowards in a state that was a state of fear, terror and destruction then,” he said. Ioan Ciuntu, priest at Saint Theodora de la Sihla Church, said nobody except God can take somebody's life. Premier Vlad Filat stressed that Valeriu Boboc must be remembered and steps must be taken to prevent similar cases in the future. In a news conference, Mihail Lascu said that the peaceful protesters went home after 23.00 on April 7, 2009, but more than 100 young people with criminal records remained in the Great National Assembly Square. ”If the police hadn't intervened, they would have vandalized all the shops located nearby,” he said.