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Sports: Armenian weightlifter Mel Daluzyan stabbed in Amsterdam

Public Radio of Armenia
Armenian weightlifter Mel Daluzyan stabbed in Amsterdam
2019-05-31 13:29:09 

                           

Armenian weightlifter Mel Daluzyan has been stabbed in Amsterdam, when trying to help the cashier during an armed attack on a supermarket.

“Two robbers armed with a knife attacked a cashier in an Albert Heijn supermarket in the center of Amsterdam. My friend Mel was shopping at that moment,” his friend Arthur Minasyan said in a Facebook post.

Mel rushed to help the cashier and stop the robbers. He succeeded, and after a while, the police arrived and arrested the robbers.

Before the police would arrive, one of the robbers managed to stab him with a knife.  Mel is in hospital now, he is stable. Dutch newspapers have called his step “heroic."

Mel Daluzyan is two-time European weightlifting champion and record holder, two-time world silver medalist. The transgender athlete has been living in the Netherlands for three years. 

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