01.05.2024, 09:48
A member of the Moldovan opposition was detained at the airport after a visit to Russia
Source: OREANDA-NEWS
OREANDA-NEWS Moldovan politician Victoria Shapa, a former candidate from the opposition Chance party for mayor of the city of Balti, said in a Telegram channel that she was being held at Chisinau airport for several hours after returning from Moscow.
"I flew home to my beloved Moldova. I was searched with a passion at the Chisinau airport. They gave out a piece of paper — that nothing illegal had been found. And for several hours they have been holding me in one of the airport premises without any explanation, without water and food," she wrote.
Later, Shapa added that three hours later she was still given water.
According to the politician, the same thing happens to all those who arrived from Moscow.
"They don't feel sorry for grandmothers or grandfathers <...> That's how the border guard service is operating now — as they said, at the behest of the top, not of their own free will. The same was said by the border guards searching me, young girls," explained Shapa.
In autumn, Shapa ran for mayor of the second largest city in Moldova, Balti. But a few days before the election, she was excluded from the election race as a candidate from the Chance party. The Information and Security Service claimed that she posed a danger to state security, as she was associated with the Shor party banned by the Moldovan authorities.
On April twenty-first, a congress of Moldovan politicians and public figures supporting the republic's accession to the EAEU was held in Moscow. At it, the leaders of the parties "Shore", "Chance", "Victoria", "Renaissance" and "The Power of Alternatives and Agreements of Moldova" signed an agreement on the creation of the electoral bloc "Victory".
After that, it was reported that thorough checks of passengers arriving from Russia via Istanbul and Yerevan were carried out in the control area of Chisinau airport. The security service detained the participants of the Moscow congress, some of them were released only a few hours after their arrival.
"I flew home to my beloved Moldova. I was searched with a passion at the Chisinau airport. They gave out a piece of paper — that nothing illegal had been found. And for several hours they have been holding me in one of the airport premises without any explanation, without water and food," she wrote.
Later, Shapa added that three hours later she was still given water.
According to the politician, the same thing happens to all those who arrived from Moscow.
"They don't feel sorry for grandmothers or grandfathers <...> That's how the border guard service is operating now — as they said, at the behest of the top, not of their own free will. The same was said by the border guards searching me, young girls," explained Shapa.
In autumn, Shapa ran for mayor of the second largest city in Moldova, Balti. But a few days before the election, she was excluded from the election race as a candidate from the Chance party. The Information and Security Service claimed that she posed a danger to state security, as she was associated with the Shor party banned by the Moldovan authorities.
On April twenty-first, a congress of Moldovan politicians and public figures supporting the republic's accession to the EAEU was held in Moscow. At it, the leaders of the parties "Shore", "Chance", "Victoria", "Renaissance" and "The Power of Alternatives and Agreements of Moldova" signed an agreement on the creation of the electoral bloc "Victory".
After that, it was reported that thorough checks of passengers arriving from Russia via Istanbul and Yerevan were carried out in the control area of Chisinau airport. The security service detained the participants of the Moscow congress, some of them were released only a few hours after their arrival.
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