ARMENIA EXPECTS JUST AND SEVERE PUNISHMENT FROM BUDAPEST COURT

Panorama.am
14:38 14/03/06

The 7th court sitting on the case of Armenian Army Officer Gurgen
Margaryan’s murder by Azeri ramil safarov will be continued on April
4 and the verdict will be probably passed on April 13.

But before that the representative of the interests of G. Margaryan’s
legal successor in Budapest Court, lawyer Nazeli Vardanyan told
the details of the trial on March 7 at the conference today. As she
mentioned the evidence given by Azeri murderer saying that he bought
the axe to protect himself from Armenian officers were rejected during
the lawsuit. A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a stressologist
were invited to the trial. The latter described the real state of
the criminal at the moment of murder from the professional point of
view. According to the conclusion of the above mentioned specialists
safarov was in quite a good psychological state and fully realized
what he was doing.

The representative of RA Defence Ministry in Budapest Court Hayk
Demoyan added that the Azeri murdered gave evidence dangerous for his
country saying the officers in Azeri Army pass Military Training on
the territory of Northern Cyprus.

“Judging by publications in Azeri papers the Azeri side will be
interested in ending the trial as soon as possible as they do not
like safarov’s evidence to be paid much attention to,” noticed the
Defence Ministry representative.

By the judgment delivered on March 13 r. safarov will probably be
sentenced to 10-13 years’ or life imprisonment. N. Vardanyan expects
that the sentence will be just and H. Demoyan insists: “The officer
of Azeri Army must be sentenced as a horrible criminal who is capable
of killing only a sleeping person.”