RA Prosecutor General’s Office spread statement concerning incident in
Artashat

2008-02-08 13:20:00

ArmInfo. RA Prosecutor General’s Office spread a statement concerning
February 6 incident in the town of Artashat of Armenia’s Ararat region.
The statement of the Prosecutor General’s Office, received by ArmInfo
today, reads that an investigation group has been created in the Ararat
regional Investigation Department on the instituted criminal case upon
February 6 incident in Artashat. All the required measures are taken to
clear up the circumstances of the incident, the video materials,
concerning February 6 meeting of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters, have
been requested and examined, the operative-investigation bodies have
been commissioned to initiate gumshoeing to identify the hooligans and
find witnesses. The residents of Mkhchyan village of Ararat region R.
Asatryan and resident of Ararat town O. Hovsepyan gave explanations,
according to which slanderous expressions were sounded from the tribune
during the meeting of L. Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters, against which they
expressed their disagreement. After that, a group of young people
standing by near L. Ter-Petrosyan attacked them and started beating.
Having informed the Police about it, the witnesses asked to take
measures to reveal and punish the guilty persons.

Employee of L. Ter-Petrosyan’s personal guard, resident of Yerevan
Sarkis Hovhannisyan also gave explanations, saying that he noticed 4-5
young people throwing stones towards the people, and when he tried to
stop them, they started beating him. S. Hovhannisyan added that he did
not notice any subject or a knife in their hands and the described
situation lasted a couple of minutes. According to the forensic medical
examination, R. Asatryan, O. Hovsepyan and S. Hovhannisyan got trivial
injuries with no threat to their health. The statement of L.
Ter-Petrosyan’s Central campaign headquarters, according to which
Sarkis Hovhannisyan has been put in hospital, does not meet the
reality. He keeps on officiating, about which he told the investigation
group personally. The reviewed video materials did not confirm the
statements about throwing of any subjects towards those on the tribune.
Investigation is underway and its results will be promulgated
additionally, the statement of RA Prosecutor General’s office reads.