Chisinau, 6 November /MOLDPRES/ - People who have reliable information about events that took place in the center of Chisinau in April 2009 are asked to pass it to the parliamentary commission in charge of investigating the riots on 6-27 November.

The head of the parliamentary commission in charge of probing the causes and consequences of the 7 April riots in Chisinau, Vitalie Nagacevschi, told a news conference on 5 November that reliable information means photos, video records, testimonies, etc.

According to Nagacevschi, the commission will focus on collecting information, analyzing and working out a report on the results of the investigation. To this end, the commission will appeal to the Interior Ministry, the Security and Information Service, the Prosecutor General s Office, the State Guard Service, the Chisinau city hall and the Health Ministry to collect data. Also representatives of the Central Electoral Commission may testify on the alleged falsification of the 5 April election. The Superior Council of Magistrates is likely to report on how participants in the events were detained and arrested.

Participated in the commission's work will be NGOs such as the Institute of Public Policies, Amnesty International and the CREDO Community Center, as well as international bodies: the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the European Union and the UNDP.

The information gathered by the previous relevant parliamentary commission, headed by Communist MP Vladimir Turcan will be used too.

Asked if he has any opinion about what happened on 7 April, when the presidential administration and the parliament's building were destroyed, Vitalie Nagacevschi said that a first impression is that no one can talk about a coup d'etat, but about peaceful large-scale rallies which turned into acts of violence. "The commission is going to find out why those rallies turned violent ", Liberal Democrat MP Vitalie Nagacevschi said.

At the same time, Nagacevschi said that the commission "is not aiming at identifying the people who have committed crimes or punishing them", this is within the remit of law-enforcers. He did not exclude that during the investigation some political leaders such as Vladimir Filat, Vladimir Voronin, Mihai Ghimpu, Dorin Chirtoaca and others will testify on the issue.