Shooting at the Moldovan airport, there are victims

On the afternoon of July 1, Chisinau Airport resumed normal operations. It was closed after an unidentified gunman opened fire on Friday 30 June. Two people died.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the special forces detained the shooter in the largest air harbor in Moldova. All flights were delayed, people were being evacuated from the terminal buildings. According to police, two people died in the line of duty during the incident. Earlier, the Ziarul de Garda newspaper reported that a border guard officer was wounded, from whom the attacker took away a firearm.

Special forces pulled to the scene managed to detain the shooter, he was injured. Earlier, the attacker barricaded himself in one of the premises of the transport hub, writes Ziarul de Garda.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that state institutions were put on high alert, writes D.W. She expressed condolences to the families of the victims and added that the shooter was a foreign citizen who was denied entry into the country by the authorities of the republic for security reasons. While escorting a foreigner to the zone for processing the return to the country of departure, he grabbed a pistol from a policeman and shot at the border police and airport security officers, inflicting fatal wounds on them, information about this was published on the official Telegram channel of the government of the country. One passenger was injured, Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said. According to him, a 43-year-old citizen of Tajikistan opened fire.

According to Ziarul de Garda, we are talking about a man who arrived from Turkey. At the same time, some local media indicate that this is a Russian citizen who was drafted into the Russian army. A source in the state structures of Moldova told the DW correspondent about the same.

Viorel Cernauteanu, the head of the Moldovan police, at a press conference did not confirm or deny that the attacker, who tried to enter Moldova with a Tajik passport, had other citizenships – this information is being verified. According to Cernauteanu, there is no evidence that the attacker had connections with the military or paramilitary structures. According to initial information, the detainee was not on the international wanted list.

In an interview with DW, he said that the border guards seemed suspicious to the background of a passenger who arrived from Turkey. In addition to him, another 10 passengers of the flight were not allowed to enter the country for various reasons. Authorities are investigating whether they were linked to the shooter.

The first time after the shooting incident, in which a border guard and a security inspector were killed, the reception of passengers from arriving flights changed – people passed through the VIP-lounge, which temporarily did not work in this role, and the express-lounge. The departure zone worked as usual.

During the arrest, the attacker was seriously injured and is now in hospital custody. How report today the Moldovan media, we are talking about 43-year-old Rustam Ashurov, who has citizenship of Tajikistan and Russia. He is in hospital in critical condition and faces a life sentence.

The prosecutor’s office opened criminal proceedings on “a terrorist act committed by killing several persons.” After the incident, the Moldovan authorities put all state institutions, as well as law enforcement agencies on high alert.

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