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PACE COMMITTEE HEAD WANTS TO VISIT PETRENCO AND FILAT – LAWYER URSACHI

18 december, 2015
PACE COMMITTEE HEAD WANTS TO VISIT PETRENCO AND FILAT – LAWYER URSACHI      PACE Monitoring Committee Chairman Stefan Schennach will pay his first visit to Moldova on December 21-22 with an intention to meet with “Our Home is Moldova” (OHM) party leader, ex-parliamentarian Grigore Petrenco and the Liberal Democratic Party Chairman, former Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat, both staying in custody.

 

Lawyer Anna Ursachi emphasized at a news conference held in Infotag on Friday that despite the approaching Christmas and New Year holidays, such a high-ranked PACE official is coming to Moldova, though he rarely undertakes such urgent voyages.

 

“Apparently, Mr. Schennach realizes better than many other people that the health and lives of Grigore Petrenco and Vlad Filat, who are in pre-trial detention, are in danger”, presumes the lawyer of Petrenco’s.

 

Anna Ursachi drew attention to the fact that the Moldovan authorities have not reacted in any way to the appeals by high-ranked European officials to change a measure of restraint to the Petrenco group. They also ignored the Moldovan parliamentarians’ request to release Grigore Petrenco on bail.

 

“All this is happening in Moldova because the local judiciary, obedient only to oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, has not received such order from him yet”, explained the lawyer.

 

Ursachi believes that the coming of such a high European official is new evidence that Moldova’s foreign partners have been seriously concerned about the situation in the country, and that they see this cannot continue any longer.

 

The lawyer said that the recent visit to Chisinau paid by Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament, United European Left/Nordic Green Left group, who attended the trial of Grigore Petrenco, “caused the Moldovan authorities’ irritation, for they did not apparently realize that Europe is attaching such importance to the Petrenco group case”.

 

Anna Ursachi called upon the media to cover Stefan Schennach’s visit as broadly as only possible “because it will make impossible for the Moldovan authorities to lie about suspects Petrenco and Filat”.

 

“I can say already today that the authorities are intending not to advertise the contents of the high guest’s conversations with Moldovan officials. For instance, Stefan Schennach has been scheduled to hold meetings with Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti and with parliamentarians, but no journalists actually know this”, said the lawyer.

 

Anna Ursachi said at the news conference that Petrenco’s defense was once again denied the possibility to bring Grigore Petrenco to a doctor to check if he hasn’t got infected with tuberculosis.

 

Ursachi stated that “the Ministry of Justice and its penitentiary institutions, all remaining under the Democratic Party’s [i.e. Plahotniuc’s] full control, are doing all in their powers to subdue Petrenco and Filat psychologically and physically”.

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