Moldova: 200 people continue to protest

Some 200 people gathered in front of the Presidency building at noon, heading towards the Great National Assembly Plaza, Unimedia.md informs. Also around noon, unidentified civilians took several students from the Agronomy University by force and left towards an undisclosed destination.

At the Unimedia news room, a recording was received, unveiling a dialogue between two persons, one of them being inside the Parliament’s building during the riot on Tuesday. According to the recording, the fire started inside the institution, not outside, and that the same thing happened in the Presidency building.

Update 2: Businessman Gabriel Stati was arrested in Ukraine, following the demand of the Moldovan authorities, sources in the Chisinau Prosecution Office said, quoted by ITAR-TASS. Last evening, president Vladimir Voronin said that the intelligence data lead to the idea that Gabriel Stati, son of the Ascom oil business owner, sponsored the protests in Chisinau.

UPDATE: In Bucharest, Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu convoked a meeting with the EU and the NATO ambassadors to Romania, in order to discuss the relation between Romania and Moldova.