ARMENIAN PARTY ATTACHES IMPORTANCE TO RAMIL SAFAROV’S CONVICTION AS CRIMINAL
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 14 2006
YEREVAN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The most important is
that Azeri Officer Ramil Safarov who has killed RA Armed Forces Officer
Gurgen Margarian with an axe in Budapest be convicted as a criminal who
can kill only sleeping people. RA Defence Ministry representative Hayk
Demoyan declared this at the March 14 press conference. The Armenian
party considers unprobable the criminal’s extradition to Azerbaijan. RA
Defence Ministry representative expressed satisfaction that against the
efforts of the Azerbaijani party, the process wasn’t politicized and
Hungarian judge Andrash Vashkuti is very professional and unbiassed.
The aggrieved party representatives mentioned the fourth expert
conclusion made public at the 6th court sitting held on March 7,
which recognized R.Safarov’s emotional manifestations within the
limits of the norm and the defendant was recognized sane. According
to the press conference participants, the fact that the defendant
was telling his biography very fluently was the evidence that he just
learnt the text by heart. He told about his friends, his fiancee but
said nothing about his family that experienced stress. Only after
the corresponding question Safarov said that his parents, his brother
suffer from stress. However, the court found out that Safarov’s brother
is ill from birth, so, there can be no stress in this case. The second
expert persisting on R.Safarov’s limited consciousness again wasn’t
able to ground his conclusion at the sitting.
The court rejected a number of petitions of the Azerbaijani party,
including the petition on ensuring second Azeri officer Anar Aliyev’s
participation, as well as giving time to the second expert for getting
ready for the questions.
On April 4, the court will hear Ramil Safarov’s final speech, as well
as those of prosecuting and defendant parties and the court decision
will be pronounced on April 13.
Hayk Demoyan called on not to make public the statements of those
who gain points at the expense of the human tragedy. In response
to the clarifying question, if RA Defence Ministry representative’s
appeal is connected with Chairman of the Progressive Party of Armenia
Tigran Urikhanian, H.Demoyan said that there is a “direct connection”
and added that he doubts the mental capabilities of such persons.
To recap, Urikhanian, in particular, had declared that he is ready
to pay 120 thousand USD to the revenger who will kill Ramil Safarov.