ARMENIAN PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE ‘UNDER FIRE’
By Emil Danielyan

Radio Liberty, Czech Republic
Jan 31 2008

Armenia’s Office of the Prosecutor-General said on Thursday that an
unknown gunman fired overnight at its headquarters in downtown Yerevan,
in what it described as an attempt to "destabilize the situation"
in the country.

A spokesman for the law-enforcement agency, Sona Truzian, said the
single gunshot was fired from a pistol and shattered the window of a
third-floor room where Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovannisian and his
top subordinates usually hold meetings. She said forensic experts
examined the scene as part of a criminal inquiry launched by the
agency’s Special Investigative Unit.

"The Prosecutor-General’s Office will continue to coordinate the fight
against crime within the framework of its duties in order to enforce
laws and maintain public security," Truzian said in a statement.

The prosecutors did not report any arrests as of Thursday evening.

The incident occurred just hours after Hovsepian’s limousine was
hit by another car as it drove through central Yerevan. Speaking to
RFE/RL on Wednesday, Truzian said the car driver was detained on the
spot and found to be drunk.
From: Baghdasarian