THEY DIDN’T WANT TO SPOIL THE "COSMETIC APPEARANCE"
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06:53 pm | May 08, 2009
Politics
"You could reveal the perpetrators of the March 1 events within a month
if you weren’t subjected to political pressure," leader of the New
Times Party (NZhK) and member of the parliamentary commission looking
into the events of March 1-2, 2008, in Yerevan City, said to Vahagn
Harutyunyan, senior investigator of the Special Investigative Group.
He reminded that the former Chief of Police Hayk Harutyunyan blamed the
Investigative Group for concealing the circumstances of the murders.
"The reason is the group’s malfunctioning," Hayk Harutyunyan said at
the Commission’s previous sitting.
Vahagn Harutyunyan gave an ironical smile in reply and noted that
the aim of the fact-finding group was to distort the existing facts.
Note that recently the fact-finding group sent to the parliamentary
commission its conclusion on the circumstances of police officer Hamlet
Tadevosyan’s death, who, according to the official data, was killed
from a bomb thrown by a demonstrator. The fact-finding group found
out that the preliminary investigation was conducted wrongly, and
Hamlet Tadevosyan died in the result of a bomb explosion in his hands.
Vahagn Harutyunyan confirmed that the officer had really died of a
bomb but it is still unknown who threw the bomb and whether it was
a bomb or something else.
Vahagn Harutyunyan called it "an unidentified explosive of the
investigation."
Vigen Adamyan, a senior judicial doctor, said they were unable to
identify the grenade as they were prohibited to "spoil the cosmetic
appearance of the body."
Let’s remind that Hamlet Tadevosyan had been wounded in the leg,
and the victim’s "cosmetic appearance" couldn’t be spoiled anyway.
"Surely, the preliminary investigation was conducted with apparent
shortcomings," said Vahagn Harutyunyan. "However, they will not affect
the unbiased investigation of the criminal case."
The Commission Chairman, Samvel Nikoyan, wondered why Tadevosyan’s
flak jacket hadn’t been examined. Vahagn Harutyunyan’s reply was
rather impressive.
It is too bad that bullet-proof vest wasn’t sent to an examination,"
said Vahagn Harutyunyan smiling.