ArmenPress
July 25 2005
GRENADE SUSPECT SENTENCED TO PRE-TRIAL CUSTODY
TBILISI, JULY 25, ARMENPRESS: A court in Georgian capital Tbilisi
sentenced Vladimir Harutunian, who is suspected in Bush grenade
incident, to three-month pre-trial custody on July 23.
Criminal charges were brought against Harutunian, who is currently
in hospital, on July 22 for premeditated murder in the killing a
security official during the shootout when the police tried to
capture him late on July 20. No charges were brought against
Harutunian for grenade incident yet. Investigators are still
searching for a motive in the case. Georgian Interior Minister Vano
Merabishvili told the Tbilisi-based Rustavi 2 television on July 23
that the investigation into the Bush grenade incident “moves to an
end.”
“We are now trying to identify all the possible links of the
suspect, or his possible accomplices,” Vano Merabishvili said. The
Tbilisi Prosecutor’s Office said on July 22 that Vladimir Harutunian,
who is also suspected in tossing a grenade during U.S. President
Bush’s speech in May, will be charged with deliberate murder under
aggravated circumstances.
