Shor party protests: unpaid and unfed people, arrests and „muscle recruiting”
28 people who were aggressive during the demonstration organized in Chisinau by the Shor party, destabilizing the situation, were removed from the crowd and taken to the police inspectorate for documentation. Among those documented were municipal councillor Valerii Klimenco, who reportedly suffered a heart attack, Orhei mayor Pavel Verejanu and Orhei district chairman Dinu Turcanu. Police officials have not yet commented on Valerii Klimenco’s state of health. Another 51 people have been documented for intent to destabilise the rally.
The people brought to Chisinau by the Shor Party did not arrive at the Great National Assembly Square (PMAN) , where they had planned the protest demonstration, as they did not agree to move along the route set by the police and tried to move along the bd. Ștefan cel Mare, where they were stopped at Tighina Street. Because they could not reach PMAN, the organizers of the demonstration improvised a stage at the intersection of bd. Tighina Street, from where they made speeches critical of the government and President Maia Sandu.
After skype interventions by Ilan Shor, leader of the Shor Party, and Gheorge Cavcaliuc, president of PACE, the demonstration ended.
The IGP announces that it has received a referral from the PG, as well as complaints from citizens about the demonstration organized by the “Șor” Party.
In the context of the demonstration held by members and sympathizers of the “Shor” Party on Stefan cel Mare cel Mare și Sfânt Boulevard in the capital, where the Prosecutor General’s Office (PG) is located, the Moldovan Police announced on Tuesday, October 25, that it has received a referral from the PG, as well as complaints on behalf of citizens passing by, waiting at stations or those residing in the adjacent area, about “the disorder allowed by the participants in the meeting, especially the unhealthy conditions created by them”.
On 24 October, the IGP announced that several young people, aged between 19 and 25, were angry and unhappy that they had not received the money they had been promised for the demonstration they attended on Sunday 23 October, organised by the “Shor” political party in the centre of the capital. Journalists from TV8 and Cotidianul.md also caught a woman among the people in the tents at the Prosecutor General’s Office expressing the same outrage.
” (…) Shor is deceiving us. He promises money and does not give it. I haven’t eaten for three days, I’m hungry (…)”, the woman told TV8.
Several young people, aged between 19 and 25, say they are outraged and dissatisfied because they have not received the money they were promised for the demonstration they attended on Sunday, 23 October, organised by the “Shor” political party in the centre of the capital, reports the General Police Inspectorate (IGP). On Sunday, October 23, 6 persons were identified among the protesters, who were reported wanted by state institutions; 37 cases of fines were initiated for various violations of public order; several young people with an athletic build and suspicious behaviour, who could not communicate the purpose of being at the meeting, were removed from the crowd; 5 persons who applied violence to the police were removed from among the protesters; 4 cases were identified in which persons present at the meeting were holding prohibited objects, including the case when objects were intentionally thrown. pyrotechnics under law enforcement cars.
“(…) The protesters’ decision to move the action in front of the Prosecutor’s Office led to unforeseeable situations that destabilized the social life of Chisinau residents living in the adjacent area, such as: lack of public toilets for physiological needs, turning the living area into an unhealthy area with potential health hazards; increased degree of danger due to the consumption of alcoholic beverages; disturbing the peace of residents by loud music, use of amplification stations and megaphones.
In this context, we point out that the police will not tolerate deviations from the normative framework and will act firmly against the organizers of the protest, provocative persons who do not subordinate themselves to the legal requirements of the law enforcement bodies, including up to actions of suspension/termination/evacuation from the place of the meeting,” reads a statement of the IGP.