MORE THAN 150 PEOPLE TAKE PART IN QUARREL AT YEREVAN HPP
YEREVAN, MARCH 5. ARMINFO. More than 150 people took part in a
criminal quarrel at the Yerevan Heat Power PLant (HPP), Chief of
Armenian Police Ararat Makhtesyan said at today’s press-conference.
To remind, the quarrel happened at the HPP on February 4 at about
22:00 p.m. As a result, one person were killed, several were wounded,
9 were arrested, and 3 are wanted by the police. 7 units of weapons
and ammunitions were confiscated.
To note, 5 workers were dismissed from the Police bodies and an
investigation is being under conduction in respect to the other
one. Makhtesyan sees the crime reason in the tendency of youth
generation to the reappraisal of values, in the lack of public
assistance and, certainly, in availability of weapons at people. He
said that as many weapons were withdrawn from people during the last
years that one may equip the whole division. He said that the
situation in the country in favorable differ from situation in the
neighboring countries and “somewhat is normal for them, comes as an
extraordinary for Yerevan”.
In his turn, Chief of Yerevan Police Department Nerses Nazaryan noted,
that the names of both the crime’s organizers and the participants are
already known and added that the occurrence is not related to the
category of very complicated.