SERZH SARGSYAN: HUNGARIAN JUSTICE SHOWED FAIR APPROACH TO ARMENIAN OFFICER’S MURDER

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Nov 9 2009
Armenia

At his meeting with Hungarian President László Sólyom Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan thanked him for an unambiguous and fair
approach to the investigation of the Gurgen Margaryan murder case
displayed by the Hungarian judicial power.

We would remind our readers that, on February 19, 2004, the Armenian
officer, Lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, who attended training courses
under the Partnership for Peace program, was axed by the Azeri officer
Ramil Safarov, who attended the same training courses. Gurgen Margaryan
was asleep when the murderer burst into his room.

On April 16, 2006, the court sentenced Safarov to life imprisonment
without possibility of appeal until 2036. The judge, Andras Vaskuti,
cited as reasons for the sentence the brutality of the crime and the
fact that Safarov showed no remorse.

As regards the Azerbaijani authorities, they, including President
Ilham Aliyev, tried to get Safarov extradited, but the Hungarian
authorities do not yield to pressure.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress