FIFTY-NINE CITIZENS ACCUSED OF MASS DISORDERS ON MARCH 1 IN YEREVAN
arminfo
2008-03-10 12:43:00
ArmInfo. Fifty-nine citizens are accused of mass disorders on March
1 in Yerevan. Criminal cases have been initiated of 4 articles of
the Criminal Code of Armenia.
Press Secretary of the Prosecutor General’s Office Sona Truzyan told
ArmInfo a large-scale work has been carried out within the frames of
investigation, the identity of provokers of clashes, key organizers
and their methods have been exposed. The investigation exposed a
number of structures that assisted the organizers, coordinated their
actions aimed to destabilize the domestic-political situation in the
country. Referring to the direct protesters, a source reports that
people were paid by 5-10,000 drams per night to stay in the Liberty
Square. They were provided with metal rods, 20 liters of petrol and
some blue explosive substance. Each part in the Square was controlled
and financed by definite people. For instance, parliamentarian Sasun
Mikaelyan, who is currently wanted, funded the protesters from Hrazdan,
who were "recruited" by a certain Gor.
A protester, resident of Tsakhkadzor, Armen Aleksanyan, says:
‘When I was in the Liberty Square I understood that Sasun Mikaelyan
funds and provides food to the residents of Hrazdan and nearby
villages. He funded Baregamyan, who paid by 5,000 drams to every
resident of Hrazdan and nearby villages through Gor’. Moreover,
the witness says that Mikaelyan also called ‘for seizure of the
power by all means’. The aforementioned Baregamyan and Gor have been
detained. The identity of the persons who beaten up the officer of
Gugark Criminal Investigation Department, Lt. Colonel Marat Manukyan
has been revealed. It was the former police officer Christofor Elazyan
who has been arrested. Operative measures are taken to find the
others who beaten up M. Manukyan. As of March 8, 180 police officers
and servicemen as well as 48 citizens received bodily harms in mass
clashes of March 1.