Stats Service: Number of especially serious crimes increased by 30% in Armenia

Emil Lazarian 2019
News.am, Armenia
Jan 1 2019
Stats Service: Number of especially serious crimes increased by 30% in Armenia Stats Service: Number of especially serious crimes increased by 30% in Armenia

17:01, 01.01.2019
                

A sharp increase in particularly serious crimes has been registered in Armenia.

According to the National Statistical Service, the increase in crimes in Armenia was 13%, with the number of especially serious crimes increasing by 30%.

A total of 20,267 crimes were registered in January-November 2018, comparing with 17898 crimes registered last year.

A total of 209 especially serious crimes were committed in 2018, comparing with 161 as of the same period last year. The number of serious crimes was 3224, last year – 2404. At the same time, the number of murders decreased up to 34 instead of 46.

The number of crimes with the use of firearms and ammunition increased up to 53 comparing with 49 last year.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS