Posted on 03/13/2023 4:19:45 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Police in Moldova said they foiled a plot by groups of Russia-backed actors who were trained to cause mass unrest during a Sunday protest against the country’s new pro-Western government.
The head of Moldova’s police, Viorel Cernauteanu, said in a news conference that an undercover agent had infiltrated groups of “diversionists,” some Russian citizens, who allegedly were promised $10,000 to organize “mass disorder” during the protest in the capital, Chisinau. Seven people were detained, he said.
Separately, police said they arrested 54 protesters, including 21 minors, who exhibited “questionable behavior” or were found to be carrying prohibited items, including at least one knife.
The protest Sunday is one of several held in recent weeks organized by a group calling itself Movement for the People, which is backed by Moldova’s Russia-friendly Shor Party, which holds six seats in the country’s 101-seat legislature.
The demonstrators are demanding that the government fully cover the costs of winter energy bills and to “not involve the country in war.” They have repeatedly called on President Maia Sandu to step down.
Police said that four bomb threats on Sunday, including one at the capital’s international airport, had been registered, which they called “an ongoing part of the destabilization measures” against Moldova, a former Soviet republic with a population of about 2.6 million.
Moldova’s border police also said Sunday that 182 foreign nationals in the last week have been denied entry into Moldova, including a “possible representative” of Russia’s Wagner Group, the private military company that is fighting in Ukraine, Moldova’s war-torn neighbor.
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It’s the same playbook as the FBI.
LOL, there probably never was a plot. So much BS out of you.
Must have been a giant plot for some cops to stop it.
Why wouldn’t Putin do that? It is such an obvious gambit.
It is a bit risky because such activity could cause a crackdown by the Moldovan government. However, I think he is correctly reading the government as unwilling to crack down. So if he can topple the government and establish a Russian-friendly government in Chisenau it may cause the Ukrainians to divert forces from the eastern front. It is risky because if the Ukes feel threatened enough they could potentially attack the Russian-friendly government before it can even set up its first concentration camps. And they would roll over Putin’s Transnistria ally in a heartbeat.
If it works, he has a new threat on the rear border of Ukraine. If it does not, he loses Transnistria. But he may have decided that the potential sacrifice of an ally is worth the gamble.
It appears that the gambit may not have worked. But the Moldovan security forces are probably very busy right now.
The Associated Press, via NBC News.com
Rest assured, this ‘news’ comes to us from two of most reliable news organizations on the planet.
The Moldavian cops must have copied what Pelosi’s J6 cops did to smear Trump.
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