ASHEVILLE – An Asheville church was targeted in a ‘hoax bomb threat’ campaign to disrupt the Moldovan parliamentary election, according to Moldova's national security and defense adviser.

Just before 7 a.m. on Sept. 28, police responded to a report of a bomb threat at the Moldovian Missionary Baptist Church in West Asheville, according to an incident report obtained by the Citizen Times through a public records request. The church was set to serve as a polling site where members of the Moldovan diaspora in Western North Carolina could cast ballots. The election pitted the country’s pro-European Union party — led by Moldovan President Maia Sandu — against its pro-Russian rival.

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