{"id":440534,"date":"2016-01-16T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T08:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/?p=440534"},"modified":"2016-01-16T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T08:21:19","slug":"the-13-paramilitary-kotovtzy-are-sent-to-the-trial-for-planning-a-mass-armed-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-13-paramilitary-kotovtzy-are-sent-to-the-trial-for-planning-a-mass-armed-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The 13 paramilitary “Kotovtzy” are sent to the trial for planning a mass armed attack"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

The 13 members of the criminal paramilitary organization “Kotovtzy”<\/a> (\u041a\u041e\u0422\u041e\u0412\u0426\u042b) from the north of Moldova are sent to the trial. They are accused of planning to violate the teritorial integrity and the changing of the constitutional order with violence. <\/p>\n

The Prosecutor Office from B\u0103l\u021bi announced it already sent the case to the Court of B\u0103l\u021bi. <\/p>\n

The arrested persons<\/a> confirmed that they were recruited to organize violent attacks in order to destabilize the order in the Republic of Moldova. Asked what was the aim, they said that \u201cthe group wanted the North part to unite with Transnistria and Odessa\u201d. The deputy chief of the General Inspectorate of Police, Gheorghe Cavcaliuc, declared that the group, called \u201cPeople\u2019s Army Kotovtzy\u201d, was planning to attack the Prison from B\u0103l\u021bi, in order to free 400 detainees and to get 50% of them as adherents. The paramilitaries wanted to get some 300 adherents and then, to attack the Military Unit in B\u0103l\u021bi to get heavy weapons. Then, it was supposed to steal from businessmen and to take the control over the factories in northern Moldova. The actions will be followed by armed expansion to Chi\u0219in\u0103u, G\u0103g\u0103uzia and then to Odessa, the so-called \u201cRussian city\u201d.<\/p>\n

The arrested ones would be charged up to 20 years of imprisonment.<\/p>\n