Per chi
mastica un pò d'inglese l'ennesima testimonianza di soprusi alla "pseudo" frontiera della Transnistria... tratto da
http://www.englishmo...p?showtopic=665 (forum sulla Moldova in lingua inglese).
Hello @all,
first: please accept that I opened a new thread since it doesn´t fit into
others....thanks...
Here is our (2 German guys) experience travelling by a marshrutka from Chisinau to
Bender (we wanted to go to Tiraspol...)
Arriving at the border a guy entered the marshrutka and checked the passports. We as
foreigners had to go to the passport control. From there they sent us to the
registration office. On the way a customs officer stopped us and talked in English
with us. I answerded in Russian (I´m very well and fit in speaking Russian). He
asked, where we want to go and why. And where I know Russian language from. Other
question was, if we had some dangerous things with us (the usual questions about
weapons, drugs, etc.) and if we had a camera or so. I said: yes we have a foto-camera
and a video-camera. He asked us to wait and went to a private car - standing near the
customs office on the side of the road. Then he handed us two customs forms in
Russian - that was ok! - and asked us to fill it.
So we did and made everywhere a cross "no" with these "dangerous"
goods.
He read the forms and said: come with me to my office. We had to go upstairs, he took
my friend with him into a small room with a writing desk and a bed. In the meantime I
was standing in front of this room - other officers came from another room and asked
me: what are you doing here?! - so it seemed, it was no place for the public.
My friend doesn´t speak Russian, so after a while the officer asked me also to enter
the room.
He asked me, what was the price of my video-camera. I told him and he said: you have
a video-camera but you didn´t make a cross "yes" on the form with
"electronic equipment". I said: oh, this camera is not electronic - it is
with a tape and I already told you before that I have this camera with me.
He said: you wanted to import this camera illegally and thats why you have to pay a
"shtraf".
And your friend for his fotocamera as well. He knew from this form how many Euros and
Lei´s we had with us (I didn´t lie...) and the "shtraf" was exactly the
amount of our Euros: 25 for my friend and 30 for me.
I said that we didn´t lie and he knew about the cameras. He insisted on the
"shtraf". OK-to avoid further trouble we agreed to pay and I wanted a
receipt for the 55 Euros. He denied! ("If you want a receipt, we do it formally
and I have to take your cameras and you can ask for them in 14 days")
So what to do? - we decided to go back to Chisinau.
In the meantime the marshrutka had gone and we were standing alone at the border.
I asked a marshrutka-driver coming from Tiraspol to take us back to Chisinau because
we had to pay a "shtraf" and he took us back.
Under these circumstances we didn´t want to go to Tiraspol any longer.
Our plans were to go on 2 September to the celebrations and this trip some days
before was a "test".
Afterwords my friend told me that, when he was in the officer´s office alone with
him, the officer lifted my friends t-shirt (perhaps to see if there was a money-bag)
and from his wallet he took by himself (!) all the money out ! By the way: he never
was interested in the Lei´s....!!!
I took the officers name and ID-Number into my mind and I will write to the
Ministry.
Nevertheless: our holidays were destroyed by that person!