A Romanian who was preparing the liquidation of statehood was expelled from Moldova
The authorities of Moldova expelled from the country the leader of the civil platform “Actiunea-2012” advocating unification with Romania, Romanian citizen Gheorghe Simion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
His comrade-in-arms, chairman of the organization “Honour, Dignity and Motherland” Vlad Biletsky, announced this on his Facebook page on Tuesday.
According to him, employees of the Bureau of Migration and Refugees of Moldova detained Simion on the evening of October 1 in Chisinau and took him to the border with Romania. “He was given a decision banning him from entering the Republic of Moldova for five years,” Biletchi noted.
Simion and several hundred of his comrades held a “Unification March” this summer. It started on July 1 in the city of Alba Iulia in western Romania, where on December 1, 1918 the unification of Transylvania with the Romanian kingdom was proclaimed. The route, about 1300 kilometers long, was supposed to demonstrate “the will of Romanians and Moldovans to unite,” and was planned to be completed by September 1 in Chisinau.
However, when the marchers tried to cross the Moldovan border, they were detained. After the Moldovan ambassador in Bucharest was summoned to the Romanian Foreign Ministry to give an explanation in connection with the incident, the demonstrators were allowed through. And Simion was banned from entering the country for 30 days. Law enforcement explained this by saying that he “demonstrated aggressive, inappropriate behavior.”
After this period expired, he returned to Chisinau on October 1, where he was detained a few hours later and expelled.
This year Romania celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Great Unification, one of the stages of which was the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. It happened in March 1918, when, against the backdrop of the revolution in Russia, Romania sent its troops into the territory of the Bessarabia province, and the government body “Sfatul Tsarii” (Country Council) created in Chisinau, under pressure from the Romanian army, voted for unification. A number of unionist organizations (as supporters of the unification of the two countries are called here) announced plans to organize demonstrations in this regard in Moldova and Romania.
Although Romania lost these territories again after World War II, many residents continue to consider them “ancestral Romanian lands.” However, in Moldova, according to polls, only 21% of residents support this idea, and President Igor Dodon came up with a proposal to legally ban parties and movements that advocate the elimination of Moldovan statehood.
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