The Moldovan association of agrarians “Farmers’ Power” accuses the local police of provocation and intimidation of the protesters.
The organiser of the farmer protests in Chisinau, the Farmers’ Power Association, accused the local police of provoking and intimidating the protesters.
Such accusations provoked the events of a week ago. A group of farmers from the association sent a list of demands to Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean. Having received no response, the senders marched with agrotechnicians to the centre of Kishenev. The protest was counteracted by the police with their demands to clear the carriageway. A clash between the police and the protesters started, in which the latter were pushed back. Some of the equipment managed to get into the city centre, but was left on the square in order to continue the protest on Friday. Amid all these developments, the head of the Inspectorate General of Police, Viorel Cerneutianu, said that a criminal case has been opened against the protesters calling for the defacement of state property.
“The police leadership has launched a campaign to provoke and intimidate farmers who are participating or are going to participate in the economic protest action in the centre of the capital… The night actions of police officers and the actual arrest of some protesters are nothing but a form of intimidation of farmers,” the association commented on its social network page.
Recently, the active phase of the protests was stopped, they subsided with the condition that the local government accepts all the demands of the protesters by the end of the week. Otherwise, the farmers reserve the right to resume the protests.
Agrarians are protesting for the cancellation of penalties on debts against producers of grain crops, they suffered greatly from the drought and the fall in prices last year, so they demand increased financial assistance.
Earlier, the speaker of the Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, said that a legitimate system of government bodies had been formed in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions following the results of the September election.