Wednesday, 6 March 2002
06.03.2002 15:41:43
GEN0921P POLICE CONTINUE QUESTIONING SCHOOL CHILDREN AND TEACHERS WHO PARTICIPATE AT PROTESTS
Three police investigators questioned Wednesday teachers and students at the Mircea Eliade Lycee in Chisinau in connection with their participation in the anti-communist protests.
The officers told lycee director Elvira Grau to ask two students and a teacher into a classroom. Two investigators locked up the classroom in order to prevent the press from covering the questioning. Although many journalists saw the officers unlocking the door, the police said the door was not locked and refused to make any statements regarding the investigation.
Nicolae Lache, the teacher who assisted the two students, said the officers asked information regarding the participation of students and teachers from the lycee in the protests. Lache said the two investigators did not introduce themselves and the students refused to sign the reports on questioning.
The third investigator questioned the director and the chairman of the strike committee of the lycee. The two also refused to sign the reports.
Grau told journalists that she was summoned to show up at the Prosecutor-General's Office on February 28, but she refused to come to the court.
Also on Wednesday, a group of investigators from the Riscani Sector police station visited the Ion Creanga Lycee. The director of the lycee, Valentin Guzgan, told BASA that the police told him to ask several students into a classroom for questioning. Guzgan refused to comply with the order, saying "I don't have the power from the parents of these students to do so."
On Wednesday, the Gheorghe Asachi lycee organized a "silent protest" in front of the school building. The protest was held by a strike committee of parents against "teachers and students being intimidated by prosecutors."
A member of parents' strike committee, Anatolie Caraman, asked the teachers not to sign any statement for police, but to call in parents in case of questioning. The students kept ten minutes of silence and then headed to the central square to join the protests.
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