Two more people complain of being bullied by police
Two more people have complained to the Chisinau city hall of having been bullied by policemen. They are two brothers who say they were beaten up near the Cathedral in Chisinau's downtown on April 18 in the evening.
Alexandra Motpan, the head of the Local Administration Division, has told Info-Prim Neo the city hall has received 320 such complaints. Those two brothers were aggressed by three people who introduced themselves as police and asked them if they had participated in April 7 protests.
Motpan says two people are reported as missing up to now. Four of those nineteen arrested minors were freed. Alexandra Motpan says anyone bullied by the police can report to phone number 20 15 16.
Chisinau mayor Dorin Chirtoaca told the April 21 staff sitting of the city hall that 5-6 teams of clerks gather data about the people held up and aggressed by the police and provide free legal assistance to them.
20 people have laid testimony up to now, and it can serve as evidence for the local and international community in a possible intent of proving the violence on the part of the police, Dorin Chirtoaca stated. He called president Vladimir Voronin's initiative to free the arrested as “populist, since nothing has been done in this respect, as new arrests were operated the following days.”
Chirtoaca has hinted he questions the statements of Anatol Croitoru, a representative of the Emergencies Division, according to whom 6 of those 11 firetrucks used in the April 7 protests were destroyed by demonstrators. When asked why the firefighters did not intervene to contain the fires in the parliament, Croitoru has said they were not allowed. He has added the Parliament's and the Presidency's administrations also have employees to intervene in such situations, but they could do nothing. Chirtoaca responded “there was an instruction not to undertake anything,” to get a reason for the police “to later intervene and aggress the protesters”.
The mayor has asked for a full-scale report, “by minute and hour”, about the fire fighters' interventions, which, he opines, “will be useful for the probe to establish what actually happened on April 7.”
