In the central square of Chisinau, protesters were dispersed

In Chisinau on Monday morning, the police dispersed the protesters who remained to spend the night on the Square of the Great National Assembly after Sunday anti -government protests,reports Newsmaker.md.

About 5 in the morning 15 police buses drove up to the square. The security forces blocked the movement in the city center and surrounded the demonstrators sitting at the monument to Stefan the Great - there were several hundred people there. The Order of the Chisinau City Hall was announced that on August 27, events were planned at this place in honor of the Day of Independence of Moldova and because of this, any other actions were impossible.

The demonstrators were threatened with “violent evacuation” in case of refusal to leave the square, after which the police began to grab their protesters by the hands and by their feet and force them from the monument.

Having dispersed the protesters, the security forces fenced the Square of the Great National Assembly with a fence. She is surrounded by the cordon of the police.

Then, festive events began in the square in honor of the country's Independence Day. Flowers to the monument to Stefan the Great were laid by the pro-Russian President Igor Dodon, Prime Minister Pavel Philip and the speaker of the parliament Andrian Canda. Protesters at this time gathered at the adjacent to the avenue of Stefan the Great Street; They were not allowed to go to the square.

On the eve of the pro -European opposition held thousands of procession and rally in the center of Chisinau. The demonstrators demanded that the results of the mayor of Chisinau, where the leader of the Putility and Justice party, Andrei Nastas, defeated the candidate from the social party party (the court did not approve the results), and resigned the government formed by the Levocentric Democratia (democrats also advocate integration with the EU), adopt an analogue of the American “Magnitic Law” in Moldova,, cancel the law on the amnesty of capital. According to various estimates, the procession and rally gathered from 6 and a half to 30 thousand participants.

Dodon condemned the speeches of the opposition. “What the parties were doing today on the Square of the Great National Assembly is shameful for democracy. It is sad that this happens on the eve of Independence Day,” the president wrote on Facebook. “No one has moral right to use people to promote their political interests. Shame on them and a shame for all those who have been in power since 2009 and to this day and indirectly guilty of such unpleasant situations that arise in Moldovan Politics.

Before the Sunday, the Moldavian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the initiation of a criminal case on the preparation of riots. According to the department, the police received information about the preparation of provocations during protests, and also revealed certain "citizens who incite violence and riots in social networks." There are suspects in the case - who exactly was reported.