Negligence, Malice and Missed Opportunities: Deep Analysis of the Demonstrations and Protests of 6 and 7 April 2009

Negligence, Malice and Missed Opportunities: Deep Analysis of the Demonstrations and Protests of 6 and 7 April 2009

Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 1[EN]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 2[EN]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 4[EN]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 3[EN]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 1[RO]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 2[RO]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 4[RO]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 3[RO]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 1[RU]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 2[RU]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 4[RU]
Dintre Neglijenţă, Rea Intenţie şi Oportunităţi Ratate: Analiza Manifestaţiilor din 6-7 Aprilie 2009 Partea 3[RU]


Negligence, Malice and Missed Opportunities: Deep Analysis of the Demonstrations and Protests of 6 and 7 April 2009

A number of findings and conclusions confirm the hypothesis that the leadership of the law enforcement bodies acted knowingly to undermine the ability of these bodies to maintain public order. This behavior intentionally deteriorated the peaceful nature of demonstrations. The quality of decision-making had been undermined by the failure to establish operation headquarters. As a result, decision-making was de facto unipersonal. Decisions were made without a rational and substantiated assessment and evaluation of the situation. Such signs are visible at every dimension of the authorities’ obligations. Therefore, the performance of police authorities requires a thorough investigation to elucidate the causes of these actions.

The study examined in detail two hypotheses regarding police behavior. They are as follows: hypothesis 1 – negligence, inadequate skills and professionalism; and hypothesis 2 – deliberate actions to undermine the peaceful nature of demonstrations. Our conclusion is that although some persons in charge, some units of the police and security forces, and especially some simple police officers exercised their functions in good faith, sometimes having insufficient knowledge and equipment, the political leaders, top leadership, and some managers acted deliberately to undermine the peaceful nature of the demonstrations and deliberately thwarted the efforts of dealing with the situation and are therefore fully responsible for the disaster that occurred.

The role of instigators and aggressive persons has not been fully elucidated, even in this report. We believe that some of these instigators acted with the consent of the police, so they played the role of a back line to degrade peaceful demonstrations. There is at least some circumstantial evidence in this regard. Specialized authorities can shed light on this, including the Ministry of Interior and the Information and Security Service. The role of some enraged segments uncontrolled by authorities certainly had the effect of multiplying aggression. But the effect of multiplying aggression would not have been possible without the inaction of authorities.

 This report is an effort of honest and direct documentation of the April 2009 situation. A lot of people willingly contributed to this report. A large portion of this report has been integrally adopted by the Commission on 7 April. Regretfully, however, the analytical part of the report, Chapters 4, 5 and 6, were not considered for the official report.

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